Agenda packet — Chino City Council, July 15, 2025 (part 1 of 7)

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CHINO CITY COUNCIL

SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY

CHINO PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY

CHINO SENIOR CENTER
13170 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2025

REGULAR MEETING
AGENDA
CLOSED SESSION – 4:30 PM
OPEN SESSION – 6:00 PM
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ROLL CALL
Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa, Mayor Pro Tem Curtis Burton, Council Member Karen C. Comstock, Council Member Christopher Flores, Council Member Marc Lucio.

CLOSED SESSION PUBLIC COMMENTS
This is the time and place for the general public to address the City Council about the closed session items. Ordinance No. 97-08 (Chino Municipal Code Section 2.04.090) limits speakers to no more than five (5) minutes in which to address the Council, except as provided under Government Code 54954.3(b)(2).

CLOSED SESSION

1. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - EXISTING LITIGATION
Pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Government Code Section 54956.9 Name of case: In re: Purdue Pharma, L.P., et al.
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2. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - EXISTING LITIGATION
Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9
City of Chino v. Loring Winn Williams, et al. and related cross-complaint (San Bernardino Superior Court Case No. CIVDS 1827623)

3. CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR
Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.8
Property: Assessor Parcel Nos: 1033-082-04-0000, -09-0000, and -10-0000; 1033-081-06-0000, -07-0000, and -08-0000; 1033-091-01-0000; and 1057-211-05-0000 in the City of Chino Agency Negotiator: Linda Reich, City Manager; Negotiating Parties: Orange County Flood Control District; Under Negotiation: Price and terms of potential lease

4. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATOR Pursuant to Government Code Section 54957.6 Agency Negotiator: Terry Doyle, Director of Human Resources/Risk Management Employee Organizations: Chino City Hall Confidential Employee Association; Chino Police Management Association (CPMA); Chino Police Officers Association (CPOA); Chino Police Professional Employees Association (CPPEA); Teamsters Local 1932 Professional, Technical and Clerical Unit; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME District Council 36 - Local 3183); Unrepresented Management Sworn and Professional; Executive Management and Deputy Directors; and Part-time Employees

FLAG SALUTE

CEREMONIALS
Proclamations
Americans with Disabilities Act Awareness Day - Proclaim July 26, 2025 as Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Awareness Day in Chino.

Presentations
Don Lugo High School Student Passion Project: Strength, Play, Access, Resilience, Kindness (S.P.A.R.K. Kids) - Recognition of youth volunteers who led the free S.P.A.R.K. passion project.

Mayor’s Home Beautification Award - Award of Mayor’s Home Beautification Award for July 2025.

REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION

AGENDA ADDITIONS/REVISIONS

INFORMATION
West Valley Mosquito & Vector Control District (WVMVCD) Presentation - Best Management Practice Guidelines for the Feral/Community Cats Flea-Borne Typhus issue from Michelle Brown, Ph.D., District Manager, WVMVCD.

External Agency Report for July 15, 2025. Receive and file the External Agency Report for July 15, 2025 (Covering Meetings from May 1 - May 31, 2025). 2 CHINO CITY COUNCIL
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PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
This is the time and place for the Mayor to inform the public of all upcoming events and past occurrences of communitywide interest and concern.

PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
This is the time and place for the general public to address the City Council about subjects that do not appear elsewhere on the agenda. Due to Council policy and Brown Act requirements, action will not be taken on any issues not on the Agenda. Ordinance No. 97-08 (Chino Municipal Code Section

2.04.090) limits speakers to no more than five (5) minutes in which to address Council, except as provided under Government Code 54954.3(b)(2). If more than three (3) persons seek to address the same agenda item or the same subject matter, the Mayor shall establish a maximum period of time not to exceed thirty (30) minutes.

CONSENT CALENDAR
At this time, members of the public may present testimony as to why an item should be removed from the Consent Calendar for separate discussion. Unless a member of the public or City Council requests that an item be removed from the Consent Calendar, all items will be acted upon as a whole and by one vote. Items placed on the Consent Calendar represent routine expenditures and/or actions that support ongoing City operations.

1. Warrants. Approve expenses as audited and within budget for warrants 776257 to 776938, and Electronic Fund Transfers 524618E to 524716E, totaling $4,209,983.51.

2. Minutes. Regular Meeting Minutes for July 1, 2025 (all members present).

3. Elected City Officials’ Report Regarding Travel, Training, and Meetings. Receive and file the Elected City Officials’ Report reflecting City Council business related expenses incurred by the City.

4. Report on Priority State and Federal Legislative Issues. Receive and file the Priority Legislative Items Report dated July 15, 2025; the Tracked State Legislation Report; and Position Letters on Legislation.

5. Citywide Digital Signature Policy Update. Adopt Resolution No. 2025-046 updating the Citywide Digital Signature Policy to align with updated state regulations.

6. Contract Approval - Human Services Programs for residents of Chino Hills. Approve a contract effective retroactive to July 1, 2025, in the amount of $270,029, for the provision of Human Services Programs for residents of Chino Hills for Fiscal Year 2025-26.

7. Master Contracts - Chino Valley Unified School District. Approve Master Contracts with the Chino Valley Unified School District effective retroactive to July 1, 2025, for the provision of community services programs for Fiscal Year 2025-26.

8. Adoption of Ordinance No. 2025-004 (Second Reading), Chapter 3.32 (Purchasing System) of the Chino Municipal Code. Approve adoption of Ordinance No. 2025-004, amending provisions of the Chino Municipal code, Chapter 3.32, relating to the City's Purchasing System for Approval Authority.

ORDINANCE NO. 2025-004 - AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

CHINO AMENDING PROVISIONS OF THE CHINO MUNICIPAL CODE, AMENDING CHAPTER

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9. Memoranda of Understanding, Compensation, and Salary Adjustments. Approve 1) Resolution No. 2025-039 approving MOU’s with various employee groups; 2) Resolution No. 2025-040 to amend the City Classification and Compensation Schedules; and 3) Appropriations in the amount of $1,072,329 to various funds for FY 2025-26.

10. Federal Asset Forfeiture Funds - Police Canine. Establish a Federal Grant Number G4260 and appropriate $24,600 from the fund balance of the Asset Forfeiture/Department of Justice Fund 120 for the purchase of a Police Canine, including initial training and all necessary equipment.

11. Final Acceptance of Public Improvements for Site Approval PL20-0026 located at 13461 Ramona Avenue. Accept public improvements as complete for PL20-0026 (SA); authorize release of the performance bond and initiate the warranty bond; and authorize the City Manager to execute the necessary documents on behalf of the City.

12. Final Acceptance of the Kimball Avenue Landscape Median and reimbursement for Bickmore Avenue Street Improvements constructed by Richland Ventures, Inc. associated with Parcel Map No. 19756. Final Acceptance of the Kimball Avenue Landscape Median and reimbursement for Bickmore Avenue Street Improvements constructed by Richland Ventures, Inc. associated with Parcel Map No. 19756.

13. Conditional Approval of a Covenant Agreement to Annex for Sanitary Sewer Service and request approval from the San Bernardino Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) for sanitary sewer service for the property located at 12766 Pipeline Avenue within the City of Chino’s Sphere of Influence. Adopt Resolution No. 2025-047 conditionally approving a Covenant Agreement to Annex for Sanitary Sewer; request approval from LAFCO for sanitary sewer service for the property at 12766 Pipeline Avenue.

PUBLIC HEARINGS
Prior to the vote of the City Council, any member of the audience will have the opportunity to address Council on any items listed under Public Hearings. Council requests, but it is not required, that you state your name and address prior to making any remarks.

14. Appeal of Planning Commission action approving the Eden Mixed Use Development Project.

Appeal the Planning Commission decision to approve the Eden mixed-use development project.

Staff Report By: Kim Le, Senior Planner and Warren Morelion, AICP, Director of Development Services
RECOMMENDATION: Conduct a Public Hearing; Adopt Resolution No. 2025-048, denying the appeal and thereby upholding the approval of PL22-0074 (Special Conditional Use Permit), PL22-0075 (Site Approval), PL24-0080 (Tentative Tract Map No. 20634), PL24-0081 (Special Conditional Use Permit), based upon the findings and subject to the departmental conditions of approval, as amended by the Planning Commission.

15. Landscape and Streetlight Maintenance District Assessment for Fiscal Year 2025-26. Conduct the Public Hearing and adopt Resolution No. 2025-042 directing the City Clerk to file a certified copy of the diagram and assessments with the County Auditor/Controller Recorder.

Staff Report By: Keith Martinez, Public Works Services Manager RECOMMENDATION: 1) Conduct the Public Hearing; 2) adopt Resolution No. 2025-042; and 3) direct the City Clerk to file a certified copy of the diagram and assessments with the County Auditor/Controller Recorder.
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16. Formation of Improvement Area 12 in Community Facilities District 2003-3. Conduct a Public Hearing; accept tax consultant's report; adoption of resolutions; conduct a special election; and approve the introduction of an Ordinance regarding the formation of Improvement Area 12 in Community Facilities District 2003-3.

Staff Report By: Kim Sao, Director of Finance and Jon White, Urban Futures Inc.

RECOMMENDATION: 1) Conduct a Public Hearing regarding the formation of Improvement Area 12 in Community Facilities District 2003-3; 2) accept tax consultant’s report; 3) adopt Resolution No. 2025-043 establishing Improvement Area 12 of CFD No. 2003-3 authorizing the levy of special taxes and calling an election; 4) adopt Resolution No. 2025-044, determining the necessity to incur bonded indebtedness; 5) conduct a special election with the property owners; 6) adopt Resolution No. 2025-045, declaring results of the special election and directing recording of the special tax lien; 7) approve the introduction of Ordinance No. 2025-005, levying a special tax, to be read by number and title and waive further reading of the ordinance; and 8) authorize the City Manager to execute all necessary documents on behalf of the City.

ORDINANCE 2025-005 - ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHINO,

CALIFORNIA, ACTING IN ITS CAPACITY AS THE LEGISLATIVE BODY OF COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT NO. 2003-3 OF THE CITY OF CHINO, ON BEHALF OF IMPROVEMENT AREA NO. 12 THEREIN, AUTHORIZING THE LEVY OF A SPECIAL TAX WITHIN IMPROVEMENT AREA NO. 12 OF THE DISTRICT

NEW BUSINESS - JOINT SESSION OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND CHINO PUBLIC FINANCING

AUTHORITY

CALL TO ORDER - CHINO PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY

17. Refunding of Community Facilities District Bonds. Adopt Resolutions authorizing the issuance of Special Tax Refunding Bonds and their corresponding Chino Public Financing Authority Resolution for the 2025 Pooled Community Facilities District Refunding.

Staff Report By: Kim Sao, Director of Finance and Jon White, Urban Futures Inc.

RECOMMENDATION: 1) Adopt Resolution Nos. 2025-050, 2025-051, 2025-052, and 2025-053 authorizing the issuance of the 2025 Special Tax Refunding Bonds; 2) adopt Chino Public Financing Authority Resolution No. FA 2025-001, approving the substantially final forms of the Indenture of Trust, Preliminary Official Statement; Bond Purchase Agreement; and Continuing Disclosure Agreement for the 2025 Pooled CFD Refunding; and 3) authorize the City Manager to execute all necessary documents on behalf of the City.

ADJOURN - CHINO PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY

NEW BUSINESS

18. Issuance of Bonds Community Facilities District 2022-1 (Falloncrest). Adopt Resolution No. 2025-049 for Community Facilities District No. 2022-1 (Falloncrest) approving the issuance of the bonds documents.

Staff Report By: Kim Sao, Director of Finance and Jon White, Urban Futures Inc.

RECOMMENDATION: Adopt Resolution No. 2025-049 of the City Council of the City of Chino, acting as the legislative body for Community Facilities District No. 2022-1 (Falloncrest) of the City of Chino (the “District”), approving the issuance of the bonds and the substantially final forms of the Preliminary Official Statement, Fiscal Agent Agreement, Bond Purchase Agreement, Continuing Disclosure Agreement, and Appraisal Report (collectively, the “Bond Documents”).
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19. Ability to Serve Letter and Out-of-Boundary Service Agreement for the provision of water and sewer service to the property located at 14901 Monte Vista Avenue, Chino Hills. Approve the issuance of an Ability to Serve Letter to the property located at 14901 Monte Vista Avenue and approve the Out-of-Boundary Service Agreement with the City of Chino Hills.

Staff Report By: Jesus Plasencia, Assistant City Engineer RECOMMENDATION: 1) Approve the issuance of an Ability to Serve Letter to the property located at 14901 Monte Vista Avenue, Chino Hills, subject to applicable City conditions and requirements; 2) Approve the Out-of-Boundary Service Agreement between the City of Chino and City of Chino Hills for the provision of water and sewer service to the subject property; and 3) authorize the City Manager to execute the necessary documents on behalf of the City.

20. Professional Services Agreement - Land Acquisition and Development Program Management Services. Award a Professional Services Agreement with Jones Lang La Salle Americas, Inc. (JLL) for land acquisition and development project management services.

Staff Report By: Jackie Melendez, Assistant City Manager RECOMMENDATION: Award a Professional Services Agreement with Jones Lang La Salle Americas, Inc. (JLL) for land acquisition and development project management, for up to a four-year term, with a total amount not to exceed $1,320,000 and authorize the City Manager to execute all necessary documents on behalf of the City.

MAYOR AND COUNCIL REPORTS
This is the time and place for the Mayor and Council Members to report on prescheduled Council Committee Assignment Meetings that were held since the last Regular Council Meeting, and any other items of interest. Upon request by an individual Council Member, the City Council may choose to take action on any of the subject matters listed below.

Mayor Ulloa
Mayor Pro Tem Burton

21. Community Support Fund - Mayor Pro Tem Burton. Approve community support fund contributions to Chino AYSO Region 67 and Chino Pop Warner.

Staff Report By: Mayor Pro Tem Burton
RECOMMENDATION: Approve community support fund contributions of $250 to Chino AYSO Region 67 and $250 to the Chino Pop Warner.

Council Member Comstock
Council Member Flores
Council Member Lucio
City Manager's Report
City Attorney's Report
Police Chief's Report
Director's Report
Fire Chief's Report
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ADJOURN
The next Regular Meeting of the City Council will be held on Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. (Closed Session no earlier than 4:00 p.m. if necessary) in the City Hall Council Chambers.

I, Natalie Gonzaga, City Clerk of the City of Chino, hereby declare that on Thursday, July 10, 2025 this agenda was posted at the Chino Senior Center and on the south window of Chino City Hall and this agenda together with all of the agenda reports and related documents were posted on the City’s website at www.cityofchino.org by myself or under my direction. _______________________________________
Natalie Gonzaga, City Clerk.
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CITY OF CHINO

DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: JULY 15, 2025
TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: WARREN MORELION, AICP, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

SUBJECT
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Americans with Disabilities Act Awareness Day
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CITY OF CHINO

COMMUNITY SERVICES, PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: JULY 15, 2025
TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: SILVIA AVALOS, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY SERVICES, PARKS &

RECREATION

SUBJECT
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Don Lugo High School Student Passion Project: Strength, Play, Access, Resilience, Kindness (S.P.A.R.K. Kids)
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CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: JULY 15, 2025
TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY OF CHINO
FROM: EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR

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Award of Mayor’s Home Beautification Award.
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CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: JULY 15, 2025
TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY OF CHINO
FROM: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER

SUBJECT
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West Valley Mosquito & Vector Control District (WVMVCD) Presentation ..end
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CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: JULY 15, 2025
TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY OF CHINO
FROM: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER

SUBJECT
External Agency Report for July 15, 2025.
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RECOMMENDATION
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Receive and file the External Agency Report for July 15, 2025 (Covering Meetings from May 1 - 31, 2025).

CITY OF CHINO MISSION / VISION / VALUES / STRATEGIC ISSUES The recommendation detailed above furthers the City’s values and strategic issues that serve as key pillars on which identified priorities, goals, and action plans are built by fostering:
 Positive City Image
 Financial Stability
 Responsible Long-Range Planning
 Exemplary Leadership
 Public Service Excellence through Internal and External Partnerships

BACKGROUND
Members of the Chino City Council are assigned to represent the City on several external agencies, committees, boards, and task forces. While the frequency of meetings varies by agency, many meet monthly. Others meet quarterly, bi-monthly, or on an as-needed basis.

ISSUES/ANALYSIS
The attached Monthly Agency Report for July 15, 2025, summarizes recent discussions and actions during external meetings attended by City Council Members. It focuses on items that may impact or be of interest to the City of Chino, its residents, and its businesses. The report covers meetings that occurred from May 1 - 31, 2025.
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MONTHLY AGENCY REPORTS
JULY 15, 2025 - Covering meetings from May 1 – May 31, 2025 Members of the Chino City Council are assigned to represent the City on several external agencies, committees, boards, and task forces. This report summarizes the actions and discussions of those entities as they may impact or be of interest to the City of Chino, its businesses, and its residents.

ANIMAL RESOURCE CENTER OF THE INLAND EMPIRE JOINT POWERS AUTHORITY Council Representative: Curtis Burton | Staff Report by: Rogelio Huerta Meeting Date: May 6, 2025
During the May 6th meeting of the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire (ARC) Board of Directors, several actions were taken:
 City of Chino Hills Membership: The Board considered and adopted a resolution to admit the City of Chino Hills as a new member agency to ARC.
 Fiscal Year 2024-25 Mid-Year Budget Adjustment: The Board ratified the mid-year budget adjustment for ARC for Fiscal Year 2024-25.
 Fiscal Year 2025-26 Annual Budget: The Board ratified the annual budget for ARC for Fiscal Year 2025-

26.  Authorized Position List: The Board approved the authorized position list necessary for ARC's start-up operations and established salary ranges for these positions.  BluePearl Cares Grant Acceptance: The Board authorized the Executive Director to accept a grant of $9,000 from BluePearl Cares and execute associated documents.  Sublease Agreement with City of Ontario: The Board authorized the Executive Director, or designee, to execute a sublease agreement with the City of Ontario for the permanent animal services center site located at 13107-13131 South Campus Avenue, Ontario, California. This authorization allows for minor modifications related to escrow closure.
 Construction Contract Change Order: The Board authorized Change Order No. 1 to the construction contract with JRH Construction Company, Inc. for the temporary animal services center. This change order is for $128,069, with an additional 20% contingency of $25,613, resulting in a total increase of $153,683 and a revised not-to-exceed contract amount of $3,906,622.  Response to Brown Act Cure or Correct Demand: The Board directed the General Counsel to send a response letter to Maureen Mendoza, stating that the demand letter incorrectly asserts Brown Act violations and is without merit.
 Official Seal Approval: The Board introduced an ordinance approving the official seal for the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire and establishing penalties for unauthorized use of the seal.

Next anticipated meeting date: June 3, 2025
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CHAFFEY COLLEGE CHINO COMMUNITY CENTER OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE Council Representative: Marc Lucio| Staff Report By: Silvia Avalos No meeting during this reporting period.

Next anticipated meeting date: June 23, 2025

CHINO VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Council Representative: Christopher Flores | Staff Report By: Ellyse Martinez Meeting Date: May 20, 2025
 On Thursday, May 1, Ellyse Martinez and Linda Hinojos attended the Taste of the Chino Valley event at the Shoppes in Chino Hills. Local small businesses restaurants showcased menu items, and guests were able to enjoy entertainment throughout the event.
 On Thursday, May 8, Council Member Christopher Flores and Ellyse Martinez attended the grand opening of the Salvation Army. While there, Council Member Flores offered a few words of welcome to the business and presented the staff with a certificate of congratulations. The business is located at 5250 E. Philadelphia St., Suite M.
 On Wednesday, May 21, Mayor Pro Tem Curtis Burton, Council Member Christopher Flores, Rhonesia Perry, Linda Hinojos, and Ellyse Martinez attended the grand opening for Smash Factor Lounge. Mayor Pro Tem Burton said a few words about the excitement surrounding this new business. Council Member Flores presented the business with a certificate of congratulations. The business is located at 3926 Grand Ave Ste C.

Next anticipated meeting date: June 17, 2025

CHINO BASIN DESALTER AUTHORITY
Council Representative: Curtis Burton | Staff Report By: Pete Vicario Meeting Date: May 27, 2025
The Chino Basin Desalter Authority (CDA) reported that 479 acre-feet of water was delivered to the City of Chino in April.

The CDA Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) recommended the following, all of which were approved:
 Approval of a maintenance service agreement with TE Roberts, Inc. for environmental cleanup services and solids handling support in the amount not to exceed $100,000. Services include vacuuming and disposing of pellets generated by the Concentrate Reduction Pellet Reactor, as well as cleaning various tanks. No impact on FY 2025-26 budget.
 Approval of a professional services agreement with Carollo Engineers, Inc. for the Concentrate Reduction Facility (CRF) operations support services in the amount not to exceed $100,000. Carollo will 15 MONTHLY AGENCY REPORTS – JULY 15, 2025 (Covering Meetings from 5/1/25 – 5/31/25) PAGE 3 work with staff to optimize the operation of the CRF, which includes project management, operations assessment, and operator training services. The approved FY 2025-26 operations budget includes $100,000 for these CRF Support Services.
 Approval of a professional services agreement with Aquasystec for SCADA support services in an amount not to exceed $250,000. Aquasystec specializes in troubleshooting, maintaining, and repairing SCADA programming systems. The approved FY 2025-26 budget includes $250,000 for SCADA Support Services.
 Approval of Amendment No. 2 for a professional services agreement with Babcock Laboratories for laboratory services in the amount not to exceed $700,000. Babcock provides water quality analysis services for routine and special water quality monitoring of raw and treated water. The FY 2025-26 budget for laboratory services is $700,000.
 Approval of Amendment No. 4 for a professional services agreement with Hazen & Sawyer for engineering support services in the amount not to exceed $862,000. Hazen & Sawyer will provide engineering support services for several upcoming CDA projects, including a Cyber Security/Network Master Plan and the Chino I Operations and Maintenance Manual/SOP update.  Approval of a professional services agreement with Visual Edge IT for IT management and monitoring services at the Chino II Desalter in the amount not to exceed $100,000. In 2024, Visual Edge IT was contracted to conduct a Cybersecurity Assessment and Evaluation at the Chino II Desalter to identify cybersecurity gaps and vulnerabilities. In response, CDA implemented a real-time monitoring solution to provide continuous (24/7) threat detection and response, with evidence retention for up to one year to support incident investigations. Expenses are included in the FY 2025-26 O&M Budget.  Approval to award a contract to ABC Liovin Drilling, Inc. for the drilling, construction, development, and testing of monitoring Wells #6 and #7 in the amount not to exceed $1,400,000. The drilling bid package was publicly advertised on April 23, 2025, and five bids were received on May 20, 2025. ABC Liovin Drilling, Inc. was the lowest responsive and responsible bidder. Funding to cover the contract amount will be deposited into the project account by IEUA.

Next anticipated meeting date: June 24, 2025

CHINO BASIN WATERMASTER
Council Representative: Curtis Burton | Staff Report By: Benjamin Orosco Meeting Date: May 22, 2025
Safe Yield Report Re-evaluation
The discussion focused on the peer review engagement for the 2025 Safe Yield re-evaluation technical results.

The current Safe Yield report indicates a reduction of 14,000 acre-feet in Safe Yield between 2020 and 2025.

The main objective was to discuss the scope of work for the peer review, which involves five tasks: reviewing materials and the 2022 approved methodology, evaluating elements material to the net recharge calculation, reviewing model calibrations, addressing other relevant issues, and meeting engagement requirements. 16 MONTHLY AGENCY REPORTS – JULY 15, 2025 (Covering Meetings from 5/1/25 – 5/31/25) PAGE 4 The scope aims to ensure consistency with the court order and confidence in the net recharge calculation. The board plans to send the scope to four pre-qualified firms, with a contract expected by June. The discussion emphasized the significance of model calibration for informed decision-making and the necessity of external validation of assumptions in groundwater modeling. The meeting concluded with a motion to approve the scope, emphasizing the importance of getting the process right for future decisions.

Next anticipated meeting date: June 26, 2025

CHINO VALLEY INDEPENDENT FIRE DISTRICT - LIAISON TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS Council Representative: Karen Comstock | Staff Report By: Linda Reich Meeting Date: May 14, 2025
Presentations/Announcements
Legislative Update - The Board received a quarterly report on state and federal legislative advocacy from Jaime Rojas of Rojas Public Affairs, covering the period from January 2025 to March 2025.

Liaison Reports
City of Chino - Council Member Karen Comstock reported on the upcoming Summer Concert series and Movies in the Park in Chino.

New Business
Ordinance No. 2025-01 Designation of Fire Hazard Severity Zones – On a 5-0 vote, the Board adopted the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) Local Responsibility Area Fire Hazard Severity Zones (FHSZ) maps and set a public hearing for July 9, 2025, during the second reading. Fire Marshal O’Toole stated the FHSZ maps for Chino Valley Fire District (CVFD) were received on March 24, 2025, and that the district published the maps on the CVFD website and at CVFD headquarters. One hundred twenty-three emails were received during the public comment period. During the Board meeting, Mayor Art Bennett of Chino Hills expressed concerns about the proposed map for Chino Hills, which expands the fire hazard severity zones within the city and is expected to increase home insurance rates. Board discussion ensued, with several Board members noting that the Fire District was required to adopt the maps and that concerned residents should reach out to their elected state representatives.

Next anticipated meeting date: July 9, 2025 (June 11, 2025 Regular Board Meeting cancelled)

CHINO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Council Representative: Curtis Burton | Staff Report By: Vivian Castro Meeting Date: May 1, 2025
Consent Calendar - Approved 5-0
17 MONTHLY AGENCY REPORTS – JULY 15, 2025 (Covering Meetings from 5/1/25 – 5/31/25) PAGE 5 New Courses - Approved three new courses, Agriculture Advanced Horsemanship P.E., AI Design and Development, Advanced Guitar, and Web Application Design and Development Award of Bid No. 24-25-07F - Awarded Bid No. 24-25-07F for the Chino HS-Old Gym Roofing Project to San Marino Roof Co., Inc. for $232,663.

Meeting Date: May 15, 2025
Action Items
2025/2026 Student Member on the Board of Education – Approved 5-0 to appoint Phoenix Kim from Chino Hills HS as the 2025/2026 Student Member on the Board
Public Hearing and Ratification of the Tentative Agreement Between the Chino Valley Unified School District and the Associated Chino Teachers (A.C.T.) for a Successor Agreement Effective July 1, 2025 – On a vote of 5-0, the Board ratified the tentative agreement between CVUSD and ACT for a successor agreement effective July 1, 2025.
 The agreement is in effect from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028, subject to reopeners.  Per the Form for Public Disclosure of Proposed Collective Bargaining Agreement, “Effective July 1, 2025, all salary schedules for unit members shall be increased by two and one-quarters percent (2.25%) or by the funded statutory cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) applied to the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) as enacted in the California State Budget for the corresponding fiscal year, whichever is greater.

For purposes of this provision, the applicable COLA shall be based on the percentage established in the California Department of Finance's official LCFF COLA projection for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, provided the COLA is funded.”
 The agreement provides a Salary Schedule change of 2.30% and a Step & Column change of 1%, resulting in a total percentage change for the average represented employee of 3.3%. Per the form, the cost of the agreement for the current year (FY 2025-26) is $4,365,737, a 2.3% cost increase.

Public Notice and Hearing Regarding the California School Employees Association and its Chino Chapter 102, Initial Bargaining Proposal to the Chino Valley Unified School District for a Reopener Collective Bargaining Agreement Effective July 1, 2025 - President Shaw opened the public hearing on this item. There were no speakers, and the hearing was closed. The proposed fiscal impact is not available.

Public Notice and Hearing Regarding the District’s Initial Bargaining Proposal to the California School Employees Association and its Chino Chapter 102, for a Reopener Collective Bargaining Agreement Effective July 1, 2025 - President Shaw opened the public hearing on this item. There were no speakers, and the hearing was closed.

The proposed fiscal impact is not available.

Next anticipated meeting date: June 5, 2025
18 MONTHLY AGENCY REPORTS – JULY 15, 2025 (Covering Meetings from 5/1/25 – 5/31/25) PAGE 6 CHINO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT – MEASURE G OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE Council Representative: Karen Comstock | Staff Report By: Silvia Avalos No meeting during this reporting period.

Next anticipated meeting date: September 3, 2025
CITIZEN’S COMMITTEE FOR CIM & CIW
Council Representative: Marc Lucio | Staff Report By: Aaron Kelliher No meeting during this reporting period.

Next anticipated meeting date: June 10, 2025

INLAND EMPIRE UTILITIES AGENCY (IEUA) REGIONAL SEWERAGE COMMITTEE Council Representative: Curtis Burton | Staff Report by: Benjamin Orosco Meeting Date: May 1, 2025
Action Item
Approve minutes of April 3, 2025, Policy Committee Meeting - There was a detailed discussion on the accuracy and completeness of the meeting minutes from the last meeting. Some committee members expressed dissatisfaction over the lack of detail in capturing discussions and motions, debating whether non-action items should be documented. Direction was given to go back and add specific requests and bring them back to the next policy committee meeting. Meeting minutes were not approved.

Information Items
A. Ten-Year Sewer Capital Forecast Fiscal Year 2025-26 – Fiscal Year 2026-27 (Written) B. Review of Proposed Biennial Budget for Fiscal Years 2025-26 and 2026-27 for Regional Wastewater Programs (Written/PowerPoint)
The committee discussed both items and requested additional information to be provided when these items are brought forward for action at the next policy meeting.

Next anticipated meeting date: June 5, 2025
LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES – INLAND EMPIRE DIVISION
Council Representative: Marc Lucio | Staff Report by: Jackie Melendez Meeting Date: May 29, 2025
19 MONTHLY AGENCY REPORTS – JULY 15, 2025 (Covering Meetings from 5/1/25 – 5/31/25) PAGE 7 The League’s Inland Empire Division met at the Burrage Mansion in Redlands. Mayor Pro Tem Burton and Administration Department staff attended the meeting.

Division President Kristine Scott of Rancho Cucamonga introduced the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority’s (SBCTA) new Executive Director, Carrie Schindler. Ms. Schindler replaced longtime Executive Director Ray Wolfe, who retired this summer. She previously served as SBCTA’s Deputy Executive Director. She holds a degree in Civil Engineering from San Diego State University and is a registered Professional Engineer in California. Before joining SBCTA, she served as the Chief of Transportation Planning for the County of San Bernardino. Ms. Schindler presented on the SBCTA’s role, its structure, and major issues.

Other IE Division officers and members discussed issues of importance to member cities, including several state bills, with much of the discussion centered on opposition to SB 79 (Wiener) and the erosion of local control on housing issues. Opposition to the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s Proposed Rules 1111 and 1121 was also discussed.

Next anticipated meeting date: June 30, 2025

OMNITRANS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Council Representative: Eunice Ulloa | Staff Report by: Dennis Ralls Meeting Date: May 7, 2025
The Board adopted the Fiscal Year 2025-26 Service Plan and Annual Budget. In FY2025-26, OmniTrans expects to achieve 100% of planned service levels on fixed routes, following the slowdown caused by the pandemic.

The approved budget of $130.9M includes $118.5M for operating costs and $12.4M for capital costs. Increases were attributed to increases in salaries, benefits, insurance, and the continued deployment of zero-emission vehicles and infrastructure. The adopted budget was balanced with proposed revenues.

Next anticipated meeting date: June 4, 2025

ONTARIO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY (OIAA)

INTER-AGENCY COLLABORATIVE (ROUNDTABLE)
Council Representative: Christopher Flores | Staff Report by: Jackie Melendez No meeting during this reporting period.

Next anticipated meeting date: TBD

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Staff Report By: Rogelio Huerta
Meeting Date: May 6, 2025
During the May 6 meeting of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, the Board approved the 20 MONTHLY AGENCY REPORTS – JULY 15, 2025 (Covering Meetings from 5/1/25 – 5/31/25) PAGE 8 following items:

Federal Lobbying & Legislative Advocacy Services
Item No. 14 involved the approval of an update to the contract with Potomac Partners DC, LLC. This update, concerning federal lobbying and legislative advocacy services, includes the addition of a subcontractor and an increase in the contract amount of $88,825, plus travel costs. This adjustment raises the contract total to a new maximum of $808,825, excluding travel expenses.

Legislative Platform
Under Item No. 16, the Board of Supervisors approved a waiver of the County policy to allow for a two-year legislative platform. This decision aims to better align the County's advocacy efforts with the two-year legislative session cycle.

Meeting Date: May 20, 2025
During the May 20th meeting of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, the board approved the following item(s):

Prado Regional Park Master Plan
The Board of Supervisors approved a time extension to its agreement with KTU&A Planning and Landscape Architecture for updating the Master Plan for Prado Regional Park. The contract now runs through June 2, 2025, with no increase to the original cost.

Next anticipated meeting date: June 10, 2025

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SOLID WASTE ADVISORY TASK FORCE
Council Representative: Christopher Flores | Staff Report by: Xochitl Huerta No meeting during this reporting period.

Next anticipated meeting date: October 15, 2025

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY (SBCTA) BOARD OF DIRECTORS Council Representative: Eunice Ulloa | Staff Report by: Dennis Ralls Meeting Date: May 7, 2025
SBCTA and SBCOG Fiscal Year 2025-26 Budgets – The Board adopted the FY 2025-26 budgets for SBCTA and SBCOG. The proposed combined revenue is expected to be $1,008,495,818, with the major funding sources to include Measure I Sales Tax, the Local Transportation Fund, and intergovernmental funds. The combined expenditures are expected to be $1,283,877,089, which are primarily divided into three categories: Transit, Project Delivery, and Fund Administration. Carryover funds, totaling $278,989,359, are included to balance the budget. Staff noted that Measure I Sales Tax is expected to drop by $3.2M or 1.3% due to a projected economic slowdown.
21 MONTHLY AGENCY REPORTS – JULY 15, 2025 (Covering Meetings from 5/1/25 – 5/31/25) PAGE 9 Ontario International Airport Connector Project - The Board approved an amendment to the Ontario International Airport Connector Project Agreements to address new challenges. The amendment authorizes an increase of $2 million, bringing the total to $5 million, from State Transit Assistance funds already approved for the project, to enhance the contract with Ontario Tunnel Constructors. The new challenges include a change in scope to reduce the number of stations at ONT from 2 to 1 and address the expected coordination needed with the anticipated overlapping construction of the Brightline Rancho Cucamonga Station improvements.

Regional Transportation Funding Survey - The Board received a presentation from FM3 Research on Voter Views in 2023 concerning the potential need for additional transportation funding. 61% of those surveyed said there is a great need for additional funds for transportation. The research collected is anticipated to help inform a potential ballot measure to extend or replace Measure I in the future.

Next anticipated meeting date: June 4, 2025
SBCTA – CITY SELECTION COMMITTEE
Council Representative: Eunice Ulloa | Staff Report by: Jackie Melendez No meeting during this reporting period.

Next anticipated meeting date: TBD
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS ( SCAG) – GENERAL ASSEMBLY Council Representative: Marc Lucio | Staff Report by: Jackie Melendez Meeting Date: May 1, 2025
The SCAG General Assembly had its Annual Business Meeting during the SCAG Conference in Palm Desert.

Council Member Marc Lucio is the City’s representative to the General Assembly. The General Assembly voted on the following:
 Adopted the FY 2025-26 General Fund Budget and Membership Assessment Schedule.  Ratified the Regional Council’s election of Officers, whose terms commence upon the adjournment of the day’s General Assembly meeting:
o President - Cindy Allen, Long Beach
o First Vice President - Ray Marquez, Chino Hills
o Second Vice President - Jenny Crosswhite, Santa Paula  Approved the minutes of the May 2, 2024 General Assembly meeting.

San Bernardino County Supervisor Curt Hagman, the outgoing SCAG President, provided a Year-in-Review, highlighting the accomplishments of 2024-25. Incoming President Cindy Allen from Long Beach was recognized.

Next anticipated meeting date: TBD, May 2026
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SANTA ANA WATERSHED ADVISORY COUNCIL
Council Representative: Karen Comstock | Staff Report by: Benjamin Orosco Meeting Date: May 6, 2025
No current items to report.

Next anticipated meeting date: June 3, 2025

WATER FACILITIES AUTHORITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Council Representative: Curtis Burton | Staff Report by: Benjamin Orosco Meeting Date: May 15, 2025
Chino Basin Program (CBP) – During the Water Facility Authority (WFA) Board Meeting, WFA staff were directed to request that the Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA) address two CBP items: (1) give a presentation on CBP at the next WFA meeting and (2) provide written information/responses to a letter requesting information for the CBP. IEUA refers to the CBP as a first-of-its-kind water program that moves beyond traditional water management practices to achieve new levels of water security, flexibility, and affordability.

IEUA General Manager Shivaji Deshmukh responded that he would attend the July 17 WFA Board meeting to discuss the CBP. As for providing written representations to the CBP, IEUA has yet to respond.

Next anticipated meeting date: July 17, 2025

WEST VALLEY MOSQUITO AND VECTOR CONTROL DISTRICT
Council Representative: Christopher Flores | Staff Report by: Vivian Castro Meeting Date: May 27, 2025
FY 2025-26 Proposed Budget - The Board received information and discussed the proposed FY 2025-26 budget.

The discussion included consideration of a 2% COLA pay scale adjustment for staff. Other items of note impacting the proposed budget include a 3% increase in benefit assessments, an increase in the number of homes in the District, two additional full-time positions to support the District’s SIT program, an increase in the District’s unfunded liability, and contractual percentage increases for deferred compensation. No vote was taken on the item.

Assessments for FY 2025-26, Resolution #2025-02 – The Board approved a resolution of intention to continue assessments for FY 2025-2026, preliminarily approving the engineer’s reports, and providing for notice of hearing for the West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District, Vector Control Assessment (Assessment No. 1) and Mosquito, Vector and Disease Control Assessment (Assessment No. 2). The item passed unanimously.

Next anticipated meeting date: June 24, 2025
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CITY OF CHINO

FINANCE DEPARTMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: JULY 15, 2025
TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: KIM SAO, DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

SUBJECT
..titl e
Warrants.
..end

RECOMMENDATION
Approve expenses as audited and within budget for warrants 776257 to 776938, and Electronic Fund Transfers 524618E to 524716E, totaling $4,209,983.51. ..body

FISCAL IMPACT
Sufficient funds have been included in the Fiscal Year 24-25 Adopted Budget.

CITY OF CHINO MISSION / VISION / VALUES / STRATEGIC ISSUES The recommendation detailed above further the City’s values and strategic issues that serve as key pillars on which identified priorities, goals, and action plans are built, by fostering:
 Financial Stability
Revenue: Expenditure:
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TITLE: WARRANTS.

PAGE: 2

BACKGROUND
As prescribed by Government Code Sections 37202 and 37208, the following demand registers are herewith submitted for Council ratification:

NO. WARRANTS CHECK DATE FY AMOUNT

1. 776257 – 776697 06/19/25 24-25 $728,759.04

2. 776698 – 776807 06/26/25 24-25 $1,438,692.01

3. 776808 – 776812 06/26/25 24-25 $115,711.00

4. 776813 – 776938 06/30/25 24-25 $16,970.95

5. 524618E – 524678E 06/20/25 24-25 $485,465.65

6. 524679E – 524716E 06/27/25 24-25 $1,424,384.86
TOTAL $4,209,983.51
E: Electronic Fund Transfers

ISSUES/ANALYSIS
See attached exhibit for detailed information on warrants exceeding $50,000.

Attachment
25 Council Meeting 7/15/25

CITY OF CHINO
A/P Warrant Register Over $50,000
Check Date Check
Number Vendor Name Description Amount
06/19/25 776373

DYETT & BHATIA, URBAN & REGIONAL
PLANNERS GENERAL PLAN UPDATE $83,571.00
776554 PB LOADER CORPORATION ONE (1) FORD F750 ASPHALT TRUCK $289,190.37 06/20/25 524650 INLAND EMPIRE UTILITIES AGENCY RECYCLED WATER $94,212.13 524657

MIRACLE RECREATION EQUIPMENT CO
INC WALNUT PARK PLAYGROUND PROJECT $59,224.11
524670 US BANK CORPORATE PAYMENT SYS PCARD PAYMENT $67,485.83 06/26/25 776728 CT & T CONCRETE PAVING INC AS NEEDED CONCRETE REPAIRS $200,101.85 776775 PLAYCORE GROUP, INC. PICNIC TABLES - CITY PARKS $70,884.13 776803 WASTE MANAGEMENT COLLECTION SERVICES $770,184.52 06/27/25 776809 INLAND EMPIRE ESCROW HOME IMPROVEMENT LOAN PROGRAM $81,500.00 524699 INLAND EMPIRE UTILITIES AGENCY SEWAGE TREATMENT SERVICE $850,401.61 524714 WATER FACILITIES AUTHORITY IMPORTED WATER PURCHASE $405,806.66 TOTAL $2,972,562.21
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CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: JULY 15, 2025
TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK

SUBJECT
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Minutes.
..end
..body
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SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY

REGULAR MEETING - CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2025

MINUTES
CLOSED SESSION – 4:30 PM
OPEN SESSION – 6:00 PM
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CALL TO ORDER
The July 1, 2025, Regular Meeting of the Chino City Council / Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency was called to order at 4:31 pm by Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa in the Council Chambers.

ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa, Mayor Pro Tem Curtis Burton, Council Member Karen C.

Comstock, Council Member Christopher Flores, and Council Member Marc Lucio ABSENT: NONE.

CLOSED SESSION PUBLIC COMMENTS
There were no requests to speak.

CLOSED SESSION
City Attorney Fred Galante read into the record the item listed on the Closed Session agenda.

2. CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR Pursuant to Government Code 54956.8 Property: 15180 Euclid Avenue, Chino; Agency Negotiator: Linda Reich, City Manager or her designee; Negotiating Parties: State of California; Under Negotiation: Price and Terms of Potential Acquisition

3. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATOR Pursuant to Government Code Section 54957.6 Agency Negotiator: Terry Doyle, Director of Human Resources/Risk Management Employee Organizations: Chino City Hall Confidential Employee Association; Chino Police Management Association (CPMA); Chino Police Officers Association (CPOA); Chino Police Professional Employees Association (CPPEA); Teamsters Local 1932 Professional, Technical and Clerical Unit; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME District Council 36 - Local 3183); Unrepresented Management Sworn and Professional; Executive Management and Deputy Directors; and Part-time Employees 28 CHINO CITY COUNCIL
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The City Council recessed to Closed Session at 4:34 p.m. and concluded at 6:01 p.m. The City Council reconvened the meeting at 6:10 p.m.

FLAG SALUTE
Council Member Lucio led the Pledge of Allegiance.

CEREMONIALS
Proclamations
Park and Recreation Month - Proclaim July 2025 as Park and Recreation Month.

Mayor Ulloa introduced a video highlighting the City's Community Services, Parks & Recreation Department programs, and read into the record the Proclamation designating July 2025 as Park and Recreation Month in Chino. CSPR Commission Chairperson Robert Martinez, Commission Members, and CSPR and Public Works Department Staff were present to accept the Proclamation.

Presentations
Business of the Month - Award of Business of the Month for June 2025 to Accredited Tax Inc.

Mayor Ulloa presented the July 2025 Business of the Month Award to Accredited Tax, Inc.

Owner Marie Reichelt was present to accept the award.

REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION
City Attorney Fred Galante reported out of closed session as follows:

1. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - ANTICIPATED LITIGATION Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Government Code Section 54956.9 Number of Potential Cases: One
The City Council received an update, provided direction, and no further reportable action was taken.

2. CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR
Pursuant to Government Code 54956.8
Property: 15180 Euclid Avenue, Chino; Agency Negotiator: Linda Reich, City Manager or her designee; Negotiating Parties: State of California; Under Negotiation: Price and Terms of Potential Acquisition
The City Council received an update and no further reportable action was taken.

3. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATOR Pursuant to Government Code Section 54957.6
Agency Negotiator: Terry Doyle, Director of Human Resources/Risk Management Employee Organizations: Chino City Hall Confidential Employee Association; Chino Police Management Association (CPMA); Chino Police Officers Association (CPOA); Chino Police Professional Employees Association (CPPEA); Teamsters Local 1932 Professional, Technical and Clerical Unit; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME District Council 36 - Local 3183); Unrepresented Management Sworn and Professional; Executive Management and Deputy Directors; and Part-time Employees 29 CHINO CITY COUNCIL
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City Attorney Fred Galante reported Closed Session will reconvene after the regular meeting for Item 3. A report out for the item will be provided at the conclusion of Closed Session.

AGENDA ADDITIONS/REVISIONS
City Manager Linda Reich reported there were no additions or revisions to the agenda.

INFORMATION
Presentation from San Bernardino Transportation Authority (SBCTA) - Presentation from Otis Greer, Director of Legislative & Public Affairs, SBCTA, on the role Measure I plays in funding transportation projects countywide and its impact on transportation improvements in the City of Chino.

Otis Greer, Director of Legislative & Public Affairs, SBCTA, provided a presentation and requested feedback on future priorities and projects from the community and stakeholders through a survey available at goSBCTA.com.

Mayor Ulloa asked City Manager Reich to add Measure I information to the City's website.

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mayor Ulloa issued a reminder about the following scheduled community events:

Chino Kiwanis Club Summer Concerts continue on Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. and Chino Summer Movie Nights is on Friday, July 11, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. featuring The Emperor's New Groove on the City Hall lawn. For information on future events, visit cityofchino.org/events.

Seniors at the Square is held every Monday from July 7 - August 11, 2025, from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. at Aguiar Square, located between C and D Streets on 6th Street. For information, call the Chino Senior Center at 909-334-3271.

Annual Family Campout is on Saturday, July 12, 2025 at Ruben S. Ayala Park, located at 14225 Central Avenue. To register, visit cityofchino.org/events.

City Hall and most City facilities will close in observance of the Independence Day Holiday on Friday, July 4, with normal operations resuming on Monday, July 7, 2025. Waste Management waste collection services will be delayed by one day and will take place on Saturday, July 5, 2025.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
Pastor John Mata, Calvary Chapel Chino Valley, provided the invocation.

Sophia Cohen, Field Representative from the office of Assemblymember Michelle Rodriguez, announced a community invitation to their Inaugural Summer BBQ on Saturday, July 12, 2025 from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. at the Chino District Office, 13160 7th Street.

Betty Celio, Chino Branch Librarian, spoke regarding the San Bernardino County Library Summer Reading Program.

Maureen Moe Mendoza, spoke regarding Animal Resource Center (ARC) concerns.

Terri Carver, nonprofit firework booth operator, spoke regarding the inconsistent regulation of banners at fireworks booths by the City.
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Diane Boudreaux, thanked the Mayor for the letter to the Governor regarding local control and builder's remedy and expressed her opposition of the Eden project.

Luis Schmidt, Business Representative of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) District Council Local 3183, spoke on behalf of Chino’s AFSCME employees, requesting a competitive and equitable economic package.

Carissa Ramirez, expressed concerns and disappointment regarding the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in Chino and the City's response, and urged the City Council to make a public statement to address the issues she raised tonight.

CONSENT CALENDAR

1. Warrants. Approve expenses as audited and within budget for warrants 776010 to 776256, and Electronic Fund Transfers 524512E to 524617E, totaling $5,911,768.12

2. Minutes. Regular Meeting Minutes for June 17, 2025 (all members present).

4. Amendment No. 6 to the Chino Desalter Authority (CDA) Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement.

Adopt Resolution 2025-036, approving Amendment No. 6 to the CDA Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement, revising Section 2.6 - Stipends for Board of Directors and Alternates and authorize the City Manager to execute any documents on behalf of the City.

5. Adoption of Ordinance No. 2025-003 (Second Reading), Amending Title 20 (Zoning) of the Chino Municipal Code. Approve adoption of Ordinance No. 2025-003, amending Title 20 (Zoning), consisting of modifications and additions to Chapter 20.06 (Commercial Land Uses), Chapter 20.07 (Industrial Land Uses), Chapter 20.23 (Administration), and Chapter 20.24 (Glossary).

6. Award Professional Services Agreement for Building Plan Check Services. Award a Professional Services Agreement to Building Code Services, Inc. (BCS), Irvine, CA, at a fixed rate of $85 per hour for all disciplines for building plan check and related services for a term not to exceed five years.

7. Annual Contract Renewals and Blanket Purchase Orders. Authorize the annual contract amendments or renewals, issue blanket purchase orders, and authorize the City Manager to execute all necessary documents on behalf of the City.

8. Amendment to Subdivision Improvement Agreement for Tract Map No. 20161 in The Preserve.

Approve an amendment to the Subdivision Improvement Agreement with Chino Preserve Development Corporation, for Tract Map No. 20161 to incorporate provisions for compliance with the City's existing Fill Dirt Agreement with OC Flood Control District.

9. Amend Measure I Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan for Fiscal Year 2024-25 through Fiscal Year 2028-29. Adopt Resolution No. 2025-037 to amend Resolution No. 2024-038 revising the Measure I Capital Improvement Plan for Fiscal Years 2024-25 through Fiscal Year 2028-29.

10. Adopt Measure I Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan and Expenditure Strategy for Fiscal Year 2025-26 through Fiscal Year 2029-30. Adopt Resolution No. 2025-038, approving the Measure I Local Pass-Through Funds Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan and Expenditure Strategy for Fiscal Year 2025-26 through Fiscal Year 2029-30.
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11. Professional Services Agreement - Merchants Landscape Services, Inc., for Landscape Maintenance Services for City Parkways. Award a Professional Services Agreement to Merchants Landscape Services, Inc., Rancho Cucamonga, CA, for $110,000 for Landscape Maintenance Services for the City's Parkways.

Motion by Council Member Lucio, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Burton, to approve the Consent Calendar items 1-11 as presented. The motion carried by the following vote:

AYES: ULLOA, BURTON, COMSTOCK, FLORES, AND LUCIO
NOES: NONE.

ABSENT: NONE.

NEW BUSINESS

12. Amendment to Chapter 3.32.130 Approval Authority of the Chino Municipal Code. Approve the introduction of Ordinance No. 2025-004 Amendment to Chapter 3.32.130 - Approval Authority of the Chino Municipal Code.

Staff Report By: Fred Galante, City Attorney
RECOMMENDATION: Approve the introduction of Ordinance No. 2025-004 amending the City’s purchasing procedures, to authorize the City Manager to approve vehicle purchases, to be read by number and title only, and waiving further reading of the Ordinance.

City Attorney Galante provided a report on the item.

City Attorney Galante read the Ordinance by number and title only, waiving further reading of the ordinance:

ORDINANCE NO. 2025-004 - AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

CHINO AMENDING PROVISIONS OF THE CHINO MUNICIPAL CODE, AMENDING CHAPTER 3.32 RELATING TO THE CITY'S PURCHASING SYSTEM FOR APPROVAL

AUTHORITY
Motion by Council Member Comstock, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Burton, to Approve the introduction of Ordinance No. 2025-004 amending the City's purchasing procedures, to authorize the City Manager to approve vehicle purchases, to be read by number and title only, and waiving further reading of the Ordinance. The motion carried by the following vote:

AYES: ULLOA, BURTON, COMSTOCK, FLORES, AND LUCIO
NOES: NONE.

ABSENT: NONE.

13. Accept the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Cycle 12 funding from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and establish Capital Improvement Project (CIP) TR262 - Central Avenue Traffic Signal Safety Improvements Project. Accept the HSIP Cycle 12 funding for $225,450 from Caltrans and approve the establishment of a new CIP project entitled “Central Avenue Traffic Signal Safety Improvements" (TR262) with a total budget of $250,500.

Staff Report By: Dennis Ralls, City Traffic Engineer
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RECOMMENDATION: 1) Accept and appropriate $225,450 in Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Cycle 12 State Funding Grant from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and increase the corresponding grant revenue in Fund 326 for FY 2025-26; 2) establish grant number G7262 and a new CIP project TR262 titled “Central Avenue Traffic Signal Safety Improvements;” 3) appropriate $25,050 from Measure I Funding 322 as the 10% local match; and 5) authorize the City Manager to execute all necessary documents on behalf of the City.

Dennis Ralls, City Traffic Engineer, provided a presentation on the item.

Council Member Comstock asked City staff to evaluate renaming Columbus Street to Guardian Way, given the lack of active addresses with Columbus on this street, and to improve visibility and public access to the Chino Police Department.

City Attorney Galante shared that a formal renaming of the street would need to come back for separate City Council consideration and action.

Motion by Council Member Flores, seconded by Council Member Lucio, to 1) Accept and appropriate $225,450 in Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Cycle 12 State Funding Grant from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and increase the corresponding grant revenue in Fund 326 for FY 2025-26; 2) establish grant number G7262 and a new CIP project TR262 titled "Central Avenue Traffic Signal Safety Improvements;" 3) appropriate $25,050 from Measure I Funding 322 as the 10% local match; and 5) authorize the City Manager to execute all necessary documents on behalf of the City. The motion carried by the following voice vote:

AYES: ULLOA, BURTON, COMSTOCK, FLORES, AND LUCIO
NOES: NONE.

ABSENT: NONE.

14. Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire - FY 2024-25 Fund Allocation. Approve the retroactive appropriation for FY 2024-25 of $2,502,554 to the General Fund for operations and capital costs to the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire.

Staff Report By: Jackie Melendez, Assistant City Manager RECOMMENDATION: Approve a retroactive appropriation of $2,502,554 to the General Fund for operational and capital costs associated with the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire for FY 2024-25 and authorized the City Manager to execute all necessary documents on behalf of the City.

Jackie Melendez, Assistant City Manager, provided a report on the item.

Mayor Ulloa inquired regarding when the animals from Chino were transferred to the Animal Resource Center (ARC) facility. Ms. Melendez reported that the animals were transferred prior to July 1, otherwise they would have incurred daily penalties from Inland Valley Humane Society (IVHS).

Maureen Moe Mendoza, spoke to express concerns regarding the ARC facility capacity, surgical capabilities, and veterinary resources, compared to IVHS service offerings and suggested the City partner with IVHS to use the mobile vaccine service.

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under the City’s prior contract, did not allow board meeting attendance, or share financial details, whereas the ARC does offer a public meeting access.

Mayor Ulloa explained the City’s decision to leave IVHS was due to rising costs, lack of transparency, and refusal to accept feedback or provide budget details. She acknowledged the ARC facility may not yet meet everyone’s expectations but emphasized it is under development. She expressed confidence that the ARC is on a path towards becoming a high quality, community-serving shelter.

Council Member Comstock acknowledged public concerns about the ARC and praised community members for holding leadership accountable. She shared her firsthand experience managing Chino’s contract with the IVHS, noting their repeated refusal to provide budget transparency or accommodate service improvement requests. Council Member Comstock pointed out that IVHS had long been the primary provider for West End communities but had gradually failed to keep pace with Chino’s growing needs. She encouraged patience through the transition and stressed that the ultimate goal is to support residents and their pets through reliable resources. Council Member Comstock expressed her desire to see ARC and IVHS working together in the future to support each other.

Mayor Pro Tem Burton announced that today marks the official opening of the ARC and reminded everyone that it’s currently operating from a temporary location while the permanent facility is being built. He highlighted that the ARC is committed to transparency, with meeting agendas available online and questions always welcome. He encouraged the community to stay patient and optimistic, expressing confidence in the ARC’s strong potential once it’s fully up and running.

Motion by Mayor Pro Tem Burton, seconded by Council Member Flores, to Approve a retroactive appropriation of $2,502,554 to the General Fund for operational and capital costs associated with the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire for FY 2024-25 and authorized the City Manager to execute all necessary documents on behalf of the City. The motion carried by the following vote:

AYES: ULLOA, BURTON, COMSTOCK, FLORES, AND LUCIO
NOES: NONE.

ABSENT: NONE.

MAYOR AND COUNCIL REPORTS
Mayor Ulloa

15. Community Services, Parks & Recreation Commission Appointments. Approve appointments to the Community Services, Parks & Recreation Commission.

Staff Report By: Mayor Ulloa
RECOMMENDATION: Approve the re-appointment of Commissioners Neal Jerry and Linda Takeuchi and the appointment of Carl Cooper to the Community Services, Parks & Recreation Commission.

The Mayor and Council Members spoke regarding the recruitment, re-appointments, and extended their congratulations to Commissioner Neal Jerry, Commissioner Linda Takeuchi, and Carl Cooper.
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Motion by Council Member Flores, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Burton, to Approve the re-appointment of Commissioners Neal Jerry and Linda Takeuchi and the appointment of Carl Cooper to the Community Services, Parks & Recreation Commission. The motion carried by the following vote:

AYES: ULLOA, BURTON, COMSTOCK, FLORES, AND LUCIO
NOES: NONE.

ABSENT: NONE.

Mayor Ulloa directed the City Clerk to administer the Oath of Office to the re-appointed and appointed CSPR Commissioners. City Clerk Natalie Gonzaga administered the Oath of Office to Neal Jerry, Linda Takeuchi, and Carl Cooper.

Reappointed CSPR Commissioners Neal Jerry and Linda Takeuchi, and newly appointed CSPR Commissioner Carl Cooper thanked the City Council for their support and the opportunity to serve the Chino community.

Mayor Ulloa
Mayor Ulloa reported on the following meeting and events including a tour with San Antonio Hospital representatives; Concerts on the Lawn, celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary; Investment Advisory Committee meeting; Montessori School graduation ceremony; threw the first pitch at Chino Girls Fast Pitch Tournament; League of California Cities Latino Caucus Board of Directors dinner; Saint Paul the Apostle Church Pregnancy Resource Center Grand Opening; Fireworks Spectacular; League of California Cities Joint Division Meeting; City Manager meeting; and Closed Session.

Mayor Pro Tem Burton

16. Community Support Fund - Mayor Pro Tem Burton. Approve community support fund contributions to Rebel Ranch and Chino Valley YMCA.

Staff Report By: Mayor Pro Tem Burton
RECOMMENDATION: Approve community support fund contributions of $500 to Rebel Ranch and $250 to the Chino Valley YMCA.

Motion by Council Member Flores, seconded by Council Member Lucio, to Approve community support fund contributions of $500 to Rebel Ranch and $250 to the Chino Valley YMCA. The motion carried by the following vote:

AYES: ULLOA, BURTON, COMSTOCK, FLORES, AND LUCIO
NOES: NONE.

ABSENT: NONE.

Mayor Pro Tem Burton reported on the following meeting and events including the Planning Commission meeting; Mayor Ulloa's 50th wedding anniversary celebration; Economic Development Committee meeting; City Manager meeting; Chino Basin Desalter Authority Finance Committee meeting; meeting with ARC Executive Director Clint Thacker; Chino Fireworks Spectacular event; ARC Board meeting and welcomed the City of Chino Hills who joined the JPA; announced July 1 is the first day of ARC and asked residents for patience as it becomes fully operational; thanked Diane Boudreaux for her public comments regarding housing concerns; and reminded residents to check the fact page at cityofchino.org/facts for 35 CHINO CITY COUNCIL
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City information.

Council Member Comstock

17. Community Support Fund - Council Member Comstock. Approve community support fund contributions to Chino Valley Soroptimist and Rebel Ranch.

Staff Report By: Council Member Comstock
RECOMMENDATION: Approve community support fund contributions of $100 to Chino Valley Soroptimist and $250 to Rebel Ranch.

Motion by Council Member Flores, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Burton, to Approve community support fund contributions of $100 to Chino Valley Soroptimist and $250 to Rebel Ranch. The motion carried by the following vote:

AYES: ULLOA, BURTON, COMSTOCK, FLORES, AND LUCIO
NOES: NONE.

ABSENT: NONE.

Council Member Comstock reported on the following meeting and events including the Joint Legislative Audit Committee meeting regarding the CIM audit; City Manager meeting; CSPR Commission meeting; meeting with resident regarding the RV parking ordinance; Infrastructure/Street Committee meeting; Chino Fireworks Spectacular event; League of California Cities Joint Division Meeting; Closed Session; thanked Betty Celio, Chino Branch Librarian, for attending the meeting; thanked City Manager Reich regarding repainting the Chino Branch library; thanked Diane Boudreaux for her public comment regarding housing concerns; Mayor Ulloa's 50th wedding anniversary celebration; and expressed appreciation for the Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church Pregnancy Resource Center.

Council Member Flores

18. Community Support Fund - Council Member Flores. Approve a community support fund contribution to Rebel Ranch.

Staff Report By: Council Member Flores
RECOMMENDATION: Approve a community support fund contribution of $500 to Rebel Ranch.

Motion by Council Member Lucio, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Burton, to Approve a community support fund contribution of $500 to Rebel Ranch. The motion carried by the following vote:

AYES: ULLOA, BURTON, COMSTOCK, FLORES, AND LUCIO
NOES: NONE.

ABSENT: NONE.

Council Member Flores reported on the following meeting and events including a meeting with Reginald Thomas, newly appointed Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce Board Chair; professional boxing event that featured Daniel Diaz; Su Carniceria Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting event; Senator Susan Rubio's open house and resource fair; Mayor Ulloa's 50th wedding anniversary celebration; traveled to Sacramento with the Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce to advocate for local businesses and discuss SB 84; West Mosquito & Vector Control District meeting; Investment Advisory Committee meeting; League of California Cities 36 CHINO CITY COUNCIL
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Latino Caucus Board of Directors dinner; Fireworks Spectacular; Joint Meeting of California Cities; and expressed appreciation for Ms. Mendoza's public comment regarding the ARC.

Council Member Lucio

19. Community Support Fund - Council Member Lucio. Approve a community support fund contribution to Rebel Ranch.

Staff Report By: Council Member Lucio
RECOMMENDATION: Approve a community support fund contribution of $500 to Rebel Ranch.

Motion by Council Member Flores, seconded by Council Member Lucio, to Approve a community support fund contribution of $500 to Rebel Ranch. The motion carried by the following vote:

AYES: ULLOA, BURTON, COMSTOCK, FLORES, AND LUCIO
NOES: NONE.

ABSENT: NONE.

Council Member Lucio provided an update regarding the recent CIM audit tour; reported on the following meeting and events including a meeting with Lisa Fraga regarding the annual Thanksgiving giveaway; Chaffey College Oversight Committee meeting; Economic Development Committee meeting; City Manager meeting; Infrastrucutre/Streets Committee meeting; Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church Pregnancy Resource Center grand opening; Chino Fireworks Spectacular; meeting with Ben Cardenas from Cabrera Capital; General Plan meeting update; City Manager meeting; congratulated Neal Jerry, Linda Takeuchi, and Carl Cooper for their appointments to the CSPR Commission; and wished Mayor Ulloa a happy 50th wedding anniversary.

City Manager's Report
City Manager Reich thanked the CSPR team for successfully organizing the Chino Fireworks Spectacular event and commented that every City department contributed to the event's success.

City Attorney's Report
City Attorney Galante reported on the AB 130 and SB 131.

Police Chief's Report
Chief Mensen spoke regarding the Police Department’s position on immigration enforcement and full compliance with Senate Bill 54. The Department does not ask individuals about their immigration status, and does not participate in immigration enforcement. The only exception would be responding to assist another law enforcement officer in danger, a situation that has not occurred in Chino. Chief Mensen also reaffirmed his openness to meet with any community member and emphasized the Department’s ongoing commitment to community engagement and maintaining strong relationships with the public.

Police Chief Mensen provided a report on the fireworks enforcement and joint efforts with the Chino Valley Fire District in preparation for the Fourth of July Holiday. 37 CHINO CITY COUNCIL
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Fire Chief's Report
Fire Chief Dave Williams spoke regarding fireworks safety and enforcement preparations; he thanked Police Chief Mensen for including him in the social media campaign to promote fireworks safety; and urged residents to use fireworks responsibly.

Director's Report
There was no Director's report.

CLOSED SESSION
The City Council recessed back to Closed Session at 8:44 p.m. to discuss closed session Item

3. The City Council concluded Closed Session at 9:46 p.m.

REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION
City Attorney Fred Galante reported out of closed session as follows:

3. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATOR Pursuant to Government Code Section 54957.6 Agency Negotiator: Terry Doyle, Director of Human Resources/Risk Management Employee Organizations: Chino City Hall Confidential Employee Association; Chino Police Management Association (CPMA); Chino Police Officers Association (CPOA); Chino Police Professional Employees Association (CPPEA); Teamsters Local 1932 Professional, Technical and Clerical Unit; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME District Council 36 - Local 3183); Unrepresented Management Sworn and Professional; Executive Management and Deputy Directors; and Part-time Employees The City Council held a discussion, provided direction, and no further reportable action was taken.

ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 9:48 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the City Council will be held on Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. (Closed Session no earlier than 4:00 p.m. if necessary) in these Council Chambers.

APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 15TH DAY OFJULY 2025.
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EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR
ATTEST:
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NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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(These minutes are not official until signed.)
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CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: JULY 15, 2025
TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK

SUBJECT
..titl e
Elected City Officials’ Report Regarding Travel, Training, and Meetings. ..end

RECOMMENDATION
Receive and file the Elected City Officials’ Report reflecting City Council business related expenses incurred by the City.
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FISCAL IMPACT
Sufficient funding is available in the adopted Fiscal Year 2025-26 Operating Budget.

CITY OF CHINO MISSION / VISION / VALUES / STRATEGIC ISSUES The recommendation detailed above furthers the City’s values and strategic issues that serve as key pillars on which identified priorities, goals, and action plans are built, by fostering:
 Superior Customer Service
 Responsible Long-Range Planning
 Exemplary Leadership
 Public Service Excellence through Internal and External Partnerships Revenue: Expenditure: 1002000-43320
Transfer In: Transfer Out:
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TITLE: ELECTED CITY OFFICIALS’ REPORT REGARDING TRAVEL, TRAINING, AND MEETINGS.

PAGE: 2

BACKGROUND
In accordance with Government Code Sections 53232.2 and 53232.3, implementing Assembly Bill (AB) 1234 on January 1, 2006, the City adopted Resolution No. 2005-093 establishing a Business-Related Expense Policy. On December 6, 2016, the City approved Resolution No. 2016-075 adopting the latest revisions to this policy. In addition to requiring local agencies to adopt a business-related expense policy, AB 1234 requires that Elected Officials provide a brief report on meetings attended at the expense of the local agency at the next regular meeting of the legislative body.

ISSUES/ANALYSIS
In response to AB 1234, a report regarding Elected City Officials’ Travel, Training, and Meetings (Exhibit A) was created and is placed on the City Council Agenda Consent Calendar, as needed. The documents that pertain to the items listed on Exhibit A are available for public inspection at the City Clerk’s office located in City Hall at 13220 Central Avenue, Chino, CA.

Attachment – Exhibit A
40 Event Date Meeting Purpose
and Subject
Matter
Location City Official
Attendees
June 18, 2025 Joint Committee on
Legislative Audit
Meeting
Sacramento, CA Mayor Pro Tem
Burton
Council Member
Comstock
June 23, 2025 Chino Valley
Chamber of
Commerce
Delegation Trip
Sacramento, CA Council Member
Flores
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CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: JULY 15, 2025
TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY OF CHINO
FROM: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER

SUBJECT
..titl e
Report on Priority State and Federal Legislative Issues. ..end

RECOMMENDATION
Receive and file the July 15, 2025 Government Relations Update, the Tracked State Legislation Report, and the Report on City Position Letters.
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FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact.

PAGE: 2

BACKGROUND
On April 2, 2024, the City Council adopted the Citywide Legislative Policy, which details guiding principles organized around respective legislative, policy, and regulatory matters. It supplements the Citywide Strategic Plan to build an effective and flexible legislative advocacy strategy.

The Policy authorizes Staff to formulate and approve official City responses for those legislative items with potentially significant impact on the City or that create an issue of timeliness for an official response, with the qualification that the position is determined to be consistent with the City’s legislative policy.

Per the Policy, the Committee or Staff is to report to the City Council on any updates, recommendations, or actions taken by the Committee or Staff.

ISSUES/ANALYSIS
The Government Relations Update includes legislative and government relations issues of note to the City (Attachment 1).

The Tracked State Legislation Report (Attachment 2) reflects the City's position on active bills being tracked during the current state legislative session.

The Report on City Position Letters (Attachment 3) includes communications submitted by the City on priority legislative and regulatory issues.
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City of Chino
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE (Attachment 1)
As of July 15, 2025
FEDERAL UPDATE (Item 1)
Federal Budget
On July 1, 2025, the U.S. Senate passed President Trump’s tax and spending reconciliation package, which encompasses most of the President’s legislative agenda. The final vote was 51–50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote.

The House passed the bill on July 3 by a vote of 218-214.

President Trump signed the bill into law during the July 4th picnic on the White House grounds.

The legislation extends President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and significantly increases funding for immigration enforcement and national defense. To fund the increased spending, the bill imposes reductions to domestic programs, including cuts to Medicaid and food assistance of $1.2 trillion, as well as billions from federal higher education funding. According to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, the bill will increase the national deficit by $3.3 trillion over the next decade and result in 11.8 million additional people losing health coverage. The CBO report is available here: Distributional Effects of H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The bill is available at: H.R.1 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress.

Education Funding
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced that it was withholding FY 2025 Congressionally approved funding for several federal education programs, including:
• Title I-C for migrant education ($375 million)
• Title II-A for professional development ($2.2 billion) • Title III-A for English-learner services ($890 million) • Title IV-A for academic enrichment ($1.3 billion)
• Title IV-B for before- and after-school programs ($1.4 billion) • Adult basic and literacy education ($729 million)
The FY 2025 funding for these federal programs is still under review, according to the President’s Administration. Funding was to be sent to state educational agencies on July 1st, in advance of the new school year.

TRACKED STATE LEGISLATION REPORT (Attachment 2)
Item 2 provides a report on the City of Chino-tracked state legislation to date. The positions noted on bills are based on the City Council's adopted Legislative Policy. Additional positions may be taken, or existing positions may be modified based on direction from the Legislative Committee or City Council.

POSITION LETTERS & MAJOR ISSUES (Attachment 3)
• SB 466 (Caballero), Support
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• SB 445 (Wiener), Oppose
• Congresswoman Torres, Opposition to Larger Trucks

CHINO CITY COUNCIL LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE MEETING The Legislative Policy Committee is scheduled for Tuesday, August 12, 2025, at 4 p.m. in Council Chambers.

STATE LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR – Recent and Upcoming Legislative Deadlines • July 18 - Last day for policy committees to hear and report bills. Summer Recess begins upon adjournment, provided Budget Bill has been passed.
• Aug. 18 - Legislature reconvenes from Summer Recess.
• Aug. 29 - Last day for fiscal committees to hear and report bills to the Floor. • Sept. 2-12 - Floor session only. No committees may meet for any purpose, except Rules Committee, bills referred pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2, and Conference Committees. • Sept. 5 - Last day to amend on the Floor.
• Sept. 12 - Last day for each house to pass bills. Interim Recess begins upon adjournment. • Oct. 12 - Last day for Governor to sign or veto bills passed by the Legislature before Sept. 12 and in the Governor’s possession on or after Sept. 12.
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TRACKED STATE LEGISLATION REPORT (Attachment 2)
As of July 15, 2025
The Tracked State Legislation Report (Attachment 2) reflects the City's position on active bills being tracked during the current state legislative session.
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As of Wednesday, July 9, 2025 (July 15, 2025 Agenda)
By Subject
Governance
AB 259 (Rubio, Blanca, D) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.

Current Text: 04/21/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/27/2025 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

Location: 05/14/2025 - Senate Judiciary
Summary: The Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing if, during the teleconference meeting, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular physical location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, and the legislative body complies with prescribed requirements. Current law requires a member to satisfy specified requirements to participate in a meeting remotely pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including that specified circumstances apply. Current law establishes limits on the number of meetings a member may participate in solely by teleconference from a remote location pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including prohibiting such participation for more than 2 meetings per year if the legislative body regularly meets once per month or less. This bill would extend the alternative teleconferencing procedures until January 1, 2030. (Based on 04/21/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Governance
ACR 44 (Pacheco, D) California Cities Week.

Current Text: 05/20/2025 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Status: 05/20/2025 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 66, Statutes of 2025 Location: 05/20/2025 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Would proclaim the week of April 20, 2025 to April 26, 2025, to be California Cities Week, and would encourage all Californians to be involved in their communities and be civically engaged with their local government. (Based on 05/20/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance
SB 634 (Pérez, D) Local government: homelessness.
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Current Text: 06/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 2).

Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: 07/03/2025 - Assembly Housing and Community Development Summary: The California Constitution authorizes a county or city to make and enforce within its limits all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws. Current law establishes procedures for the enactment of ordinances by counties and cities and makes a violation of a county or city ordinance, as applicable, a misdemeanor unless by ordinance it is made an infraction. This bill would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting a local ordinance, or enforcing an existing ordinance, that prohibits a person or organization from providing support services, as specified, to a person who is homeless or assisting a person who is homeless with any act related to basic survival. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. (Based on 06/24/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance, Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life, Public Safety SB 707 (Durazo, D) Open meetings: meeting and teleconference requirements.

Current Text: 07/08/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 06/09/2025 - Assembly Local Government
Summary: The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. This bill would, until January 1, 2030, require an eligible legislative body, as defined, to comply with additional meeting requirements, including that, except as specified, all open and public meetings include an opportunity for members of the public to attend via a 2-way telephonic service or a 2-way audiovisual platform, as defined, and that the eligible legislative body take specified actions to encourage residents to participate in public meetings, as specified. (Based on 07/08/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Governance
SB 827 (Gonzalez, D) Local agency officials: training.

Current Text: 05/12/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/18/2025 - June 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

Location: 06/05/2025 - Assembly Local Government
Summary: Current law imposes ethics training on specified local agency officials. Current law requires each training to be 2 hours and requires the officials to receive each training every 2 years, and as described otherwise, with the first training within one year of commencing service. Current law requires the local agency to maintain records of the trainings, as prescribed. This bill would expand which local agency officials are required to complete the above-described ethics training to include department heads, or other similar administrative officers, and would instead require officials who commence service on or after January 1, 2026, to receive their initial training within 6 months of commencing service. The bill would require the local agency to publish the training records on its internet website, as specified. This bill would additionally require all local agency officials, as defined, to receive at least 2 hours of fiscal and financial training, as described. 48 3
The bill would require the training to be received at least once every 2 years, as provided. The bill would exempt from these requirements specified local agency officials if they are in compliance with existing education requirements specific to their positions. (Based on 05/12/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance
Human Resources
AB 339 (Ortega, D) Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.

Current Text: 06/18/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/18/2025 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.

Location: 06/11/2025 - Senate L., P.E. & R.

Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees.

Current law requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Current law requires the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body, to give reasonable written notice, except in cases of emergency, as specified, to each recognized employee organization affected of any ordinance, rule, resolution, or regulation directly relating to matters within the scope of representation proposed to be adopted by the governing body or the designated boards and commissions. This bill would require the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body of a public agency, to give the recognized employee organization no less than 60 days’ written notice before issuing a request for proposals, request for quotes, or renewing or extending an existing contract to perform services that are within the scope of work of the job classifications represented by the recognized employee organization. The bill would require the notice to include specified information, including the anticipated duration of the contract. (Based on 06/18/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Resources, Public Safety
AB 340 (Ahrens, D) Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.

Current Text: 03/05/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/25/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 25). Rereferred to Com. on JUD.

Location: 06/25/2025 - Senate Judiciary
Summary: Current law that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers, including, among others, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions relating to public schools, and provisions relating to higher education, prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or threatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed rights. Those provisions of current law further prohibit denying to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them by current law. This bill would prohibit a public employer from questioning a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee 49 4
organization, or an exclusive representative regarding communications made in confidence between an employee and an employee representative in connection with representation relating to any matter within the scope of the recognized employee organization’s representation. (Based on 03/05/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Resources
AB 1109 (Kalra, D) Evidentiary privileges: union agent-represented worker privilege.

Current Text: 02/20/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (July 1). Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: Current law governs the admissibility of evidence in court proceedings and generally provides a privilege as to communications made in the course of certain relations, including the attorney-client, physician-patient, and psychotherapist-patient relationship, as specified. Under current law, the right of any person to claim those evidentiary privileges is waived with respect to a communication protected by the privilege if any holder of the privilege, without coercion, has disclosed a significant part of the communication or has consented to a disclosure. This bill would establish a privilege between a union agent, as defined, and a represented employee or represented former employee to refuse to disclose any confidential communication between the employee or former employee and the union agent made while the union agent was acting in the union agent’s representative capacity, except as specified. The bill would permit a represented employee or represented former employee to prevent another person from disclosing a privileged communication, except as specified. (Based on 02/20/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Resources
SB 431 (Arreguín, D) Assault and battery: utility workers.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 07/01/2025 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Would make an assault or battery committed against a utility worker, as defined, who is engaged in the performance of their duties punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. By expanding the scope of these crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Resources
Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
SB 16 (Blakespear, D) Ending Street Homelessness Act.

Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - July 2 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author. 50 5
Location: 06/09/2025 - Assembly Housing and Community Development Summary: Current law requires each city, county, and city and county to revise its housing element according to a specified schedule, as provided. Current law, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, and requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. At least 2 years before a scheduled revision of the housing element, as specified, existing law requires each council of governments, or delegate subregion as applicable, to develop, in consultation with the department, a proposed methodology for distributing the existing and projected regional housing need to jurisdictions, as specified. Current law requires that the final allocation plan ensure that the total regional housing need, by income category, determined as specified, is maintained, and that each jurisdiction in the region receive an allocation of units for low- and very low income households. For the 7th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, current law also requires that the allocation to each region include an allocation of units for acutely low and extremely low income households. This bill, until January 1, 2032, would require the council of governments, or delegate subregion, as applicable, in developing the proposed allocation methodology that allocates each jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need for acutely low income housing, to count any newly constructed interim housing, as specified, as meeting the needs of acutely low income households. By imposing additional duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/23/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
SB 38 (Umberg, D) Second Chance Program.

Current Text: 04/09/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

Location: 04/28/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Current law requires the Board of State and Community Corrections to administer a grant program to carry out the purposes of the Second Chance Program. Current law requires the grant program to, among other things, restrict eligibility to proposals that offer mental health services, substance use disorder treatment services, misdemeanor diversion programs, or a combination thereof. Current law also establishes the Second Chance Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, which is administered by the board.

The Treatment-Mandated Felony Act makes it a crime for a person, who has 2 or more prior convictions for a felony or misdemeanor violation of specified controlled substances crimes, to possess a hard drug, as defined, unless it has been prescribed by a doctor, among others. Under current law, a defendant who has been charged with this crime can elect treatment, in lieu of a jail or prison sentence or probation, by pleading guilty or no contest and admitting the alleged prior convictions, waiving time for sentencing and the pronouncement of judgment, and agreeing to participate in, and complete, a detailed treatment program developed by a drug addiction expert and approved by the court. This bill would require the Second Chance grant program to authorize eligibility for proposals that offer mental health or behavioral health services and drug court or collaborative court programs, including the treatment program under the Treatment-Mandated Felony Act. By expanding the purpose of a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. (Based on 04/09/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
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SB 360 (Rubio, D) Land conservation: California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Act: County of San Bernardino.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/05/2025 - Referred to Com. on W. P., & W.

Location: 06/05/2025 - Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Summary: (1)The California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Act, an initiative measure approved by the voters in the June 7, 1988, statewide primary election, provided bond funds for wildlife, coastal, and parkland conservation. The initiative measure authorizes the act to be amended by a 2/3 vote of the Legislature if the amendment is consistent with the purposes of the act. Existing law requires an applicant receiving state funds under the act to maintain any property acquired in perpetuity, as specified, to use the property only for the purposes stated in the act, and to make no other use, sale, or other disposition of the property except as authorized by a specific act of the Legislature. Existing law authorizes the County of San Bernardino to sell or exchange property it owns within the Chino Agricultural Preserve that was purchased with grant funds if it meets certain conditions. This bill would additionally authorize preservation of those lands or easements for park and recreational purposes, and would explicitly include, to the extent they are consistent with the purposes of the act, playgrounds, recreational venues, and preservation of historical resources as appropriate purposes. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
SB 634 (Pérez, D) Local government: homelessness.

Current Text: 06/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 2).

Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: 07/03/2025 - Assembly Housing and Community Development Summary: The California Constitution authorizes a county or city to make and enforce within its limits all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws. Current law establishes procedures for the enactment of ordinances by counties and cities and makes a violation of a county or city ordinance, as applicable, a misdemeanor unless by ordinance it is made an infraction. This bill would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting a local ordinance, or enforcing an existing ordinance, that prohibits a person or organization from providing support services, as specified, to a person who is homeless or assisting a person who is homeless with any act related to basic survival. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. (Based on 06/24/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance, Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life, Public Safety SR 15 (Ochoa Bogh, R) Relative to the “2-1-1” information and referral service.

Current Text: 02/28/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 02/27/2025 - Read. Adopted. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.)
Location: 02/27/2025 - Senate ADOPTED
Summary: Would resolve that he Senate hereby proclaims the month of February 2025 as 2-1-1 Month and the day of February 11, 2025 as 2-1-1 Day to promote and strengthen the 2-1-1 service in providing 52 7
Californians with free and confidential referrals to needed resources. Resolved, That the Senate commits to supporting the 2-1-1 service and infrastructure so that all Californians have equitable access to this critical service that provides resource connections regarding support for poverty, housing, family and children, aging and disability, health equity, and disasters. Resolved, That the Senate encourages all Californians to be aware of the 2-1-1 service and look up their local 2-1-1 service provider on the internet at 211.org (Based on 02/28/2025 text)
Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
Legal and Records Management
AB 538 (Berman, D) Public works: payroll records.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/07/2025 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Location: 07/07/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Current law requires the Labor Commissioner to investigate allegations that a contractor or subcontractor violated the law regulating public works projects, including the payment of prevailing wages.

Current law requires each contractor and subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records, showing the name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime hours worked each day and week, and the actual per diem wages paid to each journeyman, apprentice, worker, or other employee employed by the contractor or subcontractor in connection with the public work.

Current law requires certified copies of records to be available upon request by the public and sets forth a process for the public to request the records either through the awarding body or the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. Current law makes any contractor, subcontractor, agent, or representative who neglects to comply with the requirements to keep accurate payroll records guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would require the awarding body, if a request is made by the public through the awarding body and the body is not in possession of the certified records, to obtain those records from the relevant contractor and make them available to the requesting entity. The bill would authorize the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to enforce certain penalties if a contractor fails to comply with the awarding body’s request within 10 days of receipt of the notice. (Based on 05/23/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Legal and Records Management
AB 712 (Wicks, D) Housing reform laws: enforcement actions: fines and penalties.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

Location: 05/21/2025 - Senate Judiciary
Summary: Current law within the Planning and Zoning Law describes various reforms and incentives enacted by the Legislature to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Current law within the Planning and Zoning Law, in certain civil actions or proceedings against a public entity that has issued specified approvals for a housing development, authorizes a court to award all reasonably incurred costs of suit to a prevailing public entity or nonprofit housing corporation that is a real party in interest and the permit applicant of the low- or moderate-income housing if the court makes specified findings. This bill, where the applicant for a housing development is a prevailing party in an action brought by the applicant to enforce the public agency’s compliance with a housing reform law as applied to the applicant’s housing 53 8
development project, would entitle an applicant for a housing development project to reasonable attorney’s fees and costs and would require a court to impose fines on a local agency, as specified. The bill would extend any period of limitation for actions under any state law for a period of 60 days beginning on the date the applicant provides written notice to the local agency indicating its intent to commence an action. The bill would prohibit a public agency from requiring the applicant to indemnify, defend, or hold harmless the public agency in any action alleging the public agency violated the applicant’s rights or deprived the applicant of the benefits or protection provide by a housing reform law. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Legal and Records Management, Planning, Land Use, Housing Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
Municipal Funding and Procurement
AB 262 (Caloza, D) California Individual Assistance Act.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/11/2025 - Referred to Com. on G.O.

Location: 06/11/2025 - Senate Governmental Organization Summary: The California Disaster Assistance Act requires the Director of Emergency Services to provide financial assistance to local agencies for their personnel costs, equipment costs, and the cost of supplies and materials used during disaster response activities, incurred as a result of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, subject to specified criteria. The act continuously appropriates moneys in the Disaster Assistance Fund and its subsidiary account, the Earthquake Emergency Investigations Account, without regard to fiscal year, for purposes of the act. This bill would enact the California Individual Assistance Act to establish a grant program to provide financial assistance, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to local agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals for specified costs related to a disaster, as prescribed. The bill would require the director to allocate from the fund, subject to specified conditions, funds to meet the cost of expenses for those purposes. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Public Safety Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 330 (Rogers, D) Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act.

Current Text: 01/27/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 07/08/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act, until January 1, 2026, suspends the authority of a city, county, or city and county to impose a utility user tax on the consumption of prepaid communications service and any charge that applies to prepaid mobile telephony service, as defined, on access to communication services or access to local “911” emergency telephone systems, and instead requires those taxes and charges to be applied during the period beginning January 1, 2016, and ending January 1, 2026, under any local ordinance to be at specified rates. The act requires that these local charges imposed by a city, county, or a city and county on prepaid mobile telephony services be collected from the prepaid consumer by a seller at the time of sale, as specified. Current law requires that all local charges be collected and paid to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law and be deposited into the Local Charges for Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Fund, and 54 9
be transmitted to the city, county, or city and county, as provided. This bill would extend operation of the act until January 1, 2031. (Based on 01/27/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement
AB 532 (Ransom, D) Water rate assistance program.

Current Text: 06/19/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Senate Local Government
Summary: Current federal law, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, among other things, requires the federal Department of Health and Human Services to carry out a Low-Income Household Drinking Water and Wastewater Emergency Assistance Program, which is also known as the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program, for making grants to states and Indian tribes to assist low-income households that pay a high proportion of household income for drinking water and wastewater services, as provided. Current law requires the Department of Community Services and Development to administer the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program in this state, and to receive and expend moneys appropriated and allocated to the state for purposes of that program, pursuant to the above-described federal law. The Low Income Household Water Assistance Program was only operative until March 31, 2024. This bill would repeal the abovedescribed requirements related to the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program. (Based on 06/19/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources SB 346 (Durazo, D) Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator.

Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/07/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

Location: 07/03/2025 - Assembly Judiciary
Summary: Current law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to regulate the occupancy of a room or rooms, or other living space, in a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, or other lodging for a period of less than 30 days. This bill would authorize a local agency, defined to mean a city, county, or city and county, to enact an ordinance to require a short-term rental facilitator, as defined, to report, in the form and manner prescribed by the local agency, the physical address, including 9-digit ZIP Code, of each shortterm rental, as defined, during the reporting period. The bill would also authorize a local agency to request additional information, as provided, when the physical address is not sufficient for the local agency to identify a specific short-term rental. The bill would authorize the local agency to impose an administrative fine or penalty for failure to file the report, and would authorize the local agency to initiate an audit of a shortterm rental facilitator, as described. The bill would require a short-term rental facilitator, in a jurisdiction that has adopted an ordinance, to include in the listing of a short-term rental any applicable local license number associated with the short-term rental and any transient occupancy tax certification issued by a local agency. (Based on 07/07/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
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SB 549 (Allen, D) Local government: Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act: Resilient Rebuilding Authority for the Los Angeles Wildfires.

Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/25/2025 - July 2 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

Location: 06/05/2025 - Assembly Local Government
Summary: The Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act, or NIFTI-2, authorizes a city, county, or city and county to adopt a resolution, at any time before or after the adoption of the infrastructure financing plan for an enhanced infrastructure financing district, to allocate tax revenues of that entity to the district, including revenues derived from local sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or transactions and use taxes imposed in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, if certain conditions are met, including that the boundaries of the enhanced infrastructure financing district are coterminous with the city or county that established the district. This bill would revise NIFTI-2 to instead authorize, for resolutions adopted under that act’s provisions on or after January 1, 2026, a city, county, or city and county to adopt a resolution, at any time before or after the adoption of the infrastructure financing plan for an enhanced infrastructure financing district, to allocate property tax revenues, and to remove the authorization for adoption of a resolution that allocates revenues derived from local sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or transactions and use taxes. The bill would also repeal the condition that the boundaries of the enhanced infrastructure financing district are coterminous with the city or county that established the district (Based on 06/23/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing SB 696 (Alvarado-Gil, R) Sales and Use Tax Law: exemptions: firefighting equipment.

Current Text: 05/08/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

Location: 05/19/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes. This bill, on and after July 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2031, would exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, firefighting apparatus, equipment, or specialized vehicles, as defined, purchased by a fire department, including an allvolunteer fire department, as defined, or a fire protection district. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 05/08/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement
SB 789 (Menjivar, D) Taxation: information returns: vacant commercial real property.

Current Text: 04/30/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

Location: 05/12/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Summary: Current statutory law, the Documentary Transfer Tax Act, authorizes the imposition of a tax by a county or city, as provided, with respect to specified instruments that transfer specified interests in real property. Current law establishes the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration for the purpose of administering various taxes. This bill would require a person, as defined, that owns commercial property, as defined, in this state to register with the department, as provided. The bill would require every person owning commercial real property in this state to file an information return each year by a date determined by the department, as provided. The bill would require the information return to include specified information, including, among other requirements, whether any buildings or portions of buildings were vacant in the previous calendar year. The bill would authorize extensions of the time for a person to file an information return under specified circumstances, including for good cause. The bill would impose on any person who fails or refuses to timely furnish a return required by its provisions a penalty of $100 per commercial property that the person fails or refuses to timely furnish the information return. The bill would authorize the Director of Finance to make a loan from the General Fund to the department to implement those provisions, and would require any loan to be repaid from revenues from penalties imposed. (Based on 04/30/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 11 (Lee, D) The Social Housing Act.

Current Text: 12/02/2024 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 06/26/2025 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Location: 06/11/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: Would enact the Social Housing Act and would create the California Housing Authority as an independent state body, the mission of which would be to ensure that social housing developments that are produced and acquired align with the goals of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets and preserving affordable housing. The bill would prescribe a definition of social housing that would describe, in addition to housing owned by the authority, housing owned by other entities, as specified, provided that all social housing developed or authorized by the authority would be owned by the authority. (Based on 12/02/2024 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 39 (Zbur, D) General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U & C.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive general plan for the city’s or county’s physical development that includes various elements, including, among others, a land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land in specified categories, and a circulation element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares, transportation routes, terminals, any military airports and ports, and other local public utilities and facilities, as specified. This bill, the Local Electrification Planning Act, would require each city, county, or city and county, on or after January 1, 2027, but no later than January 1, 2030, to prepare and adopt a specified plan, or integrate a plan in the next adoption or revision of the general plan, that includes locally based goals, objectives, policies, and feasible implementation measures that include, among other things, the identification of opportunities to expand electric vehicle charging and other zero57 12 emission vehicle fueling infrastructure, as specified, and includes policies and implementation measures that address the needs of disadvantaged communities, low-income households, and small businesses for equitable and prioritized investments in zero-emission technologies that directly benefit these groups. (Based on 07/03/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 76 (Alvarez, D) Surplus land: exempt surplus land: sectional planning area.

Current Text: 04/21/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/21/2025 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 05/21/2025 - Senate Local Government
Summary: Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Current law defines “exempt surplus land” to mean, among other things, land that is subject to a sectional planning area document, as described, and meets specified requirements, including that at least 25% of the units are dedicated to lower income households, as specified, and that is developed at an average density of at least 10 units per acre calculated with respect to the entire sectional planning area. This bill would change those requirements so that at a minimum, 25% of units that are proposed by the sectional planning area document as adopted prior to January 1, 2019, and are not designated for students, faculty, or staff of an academic institution must be dedicated to lower income households, as specified, and that the land must be developed at an average density of at least 10 units per acre, in accordance with certain requirements and calculated with respect to the entire sectional planning area and inclusive of housing designated for students, faculty, and staff of an academic institution. (Based on 04/21/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 222 (Bauer-Kahan, D) Data centers: power usage effectiveness: cost shifts.

Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/07/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

Location: 07/01/2025 - Senate Judiciary
Summary: Current law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to biennially adopt an integrated energy policy report, as specified, and to make the reports accessible to state, local, and federal entities and to the general public. This bill would require the Energy Commission to establish a process for the owner of a data center, as defined, to submit the power usage effectiveness ratio, as defined, for the data center to the Energy Commission on a biannual basis, and require the owner of a data center to submit this information for the data center in the manner and timeframe specified by the Energy Commission. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 253 (Ward, D) California Residential Private Permitting Review Act: residential building permits.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. 58 13
Location: 07/02/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law authorizes a county’s or city’s governing body to prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or authorized under the State Housing Law. This bill, the California Residential Private Permitting Review Act, would require a county or city to prepare a residential building permit fee schedule and post the schedule on the county’s or city’s internet website, if the county or city prescribes residential building permit fees. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 306 (Schultz, D) Building regulations: state building standards.

Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/23/2025 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.

Location: 04/23/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission (commission) within the Department of General Services.

Current law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code (code). The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law requires, among other things, the building standards adopted and submitted by the department for approval by the commission, as specified, to be adopted by reference, with certain exceptions. Current law authorizes any city or county to make changes in those building standards that are published in the code, including to green building standards. Current law requires the governing body of a city or county, before making modifications or changes to those green building standards, to make an express finding that those modifications or changes are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions. This bill would, from October 1, 2025, to June 1, 2031, inclusive, prohibit a city or county from making changes that are applicable to residential units to the above-described building standards unless a certain condition is met, including that the commission deems those changes or modifications necessary as emergency standards to protect health and safety. (Based on 06/23/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 357 (Alvarez, D) Coastal resources: coastal development permit application: higher education housing project.

Current Text: 06/30/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - VOTE: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Housing] (PASS)
Location: 07/08/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: The Coastal Act of 1976, which is administered by the California Coastal Commission, requires a person wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone to obtain a coastal development permit. The act provides for the submission and approval of long-range land use development plans as an alternative to project-by-project review to promote greater efficiency for the planning of state 59 14
university or college or private university development projects and provides for amendments to those plans.

The act places limits on the conditions the commission may impose on projects contained in a plan that has been certified by the commission. This bill would prohibit the commission from denying or imposing conditions on specified amendments to a long-range development plan submitted by a state university or college or private university for the purpose of developing a student housing project or faculty and staff housing project. (Based on 06/30/2025 text)
Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 424 (Davies, R) Alcohol and other drug programs: complaints.

Current Text: 03/19/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/26/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 06/26/2025 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: Would, when the Department of Health Care Services receives a complaint against a licensed alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, or a complaint alleging that a facility is unlawfully operating without a license, from a member of the public, require the department to provide, within 30 10 days of the date of the complaint, notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been received and to provide, upon closing the complaint, notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been closed and whether the department found the facility to be in violation of the provisions governing facility licensure and regulation. (Based on 03/19/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 492 (Valencia, D) Alcohol and drug programs: licensing.

Current Text: 02/10/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 07/01/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 07/01/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Would require the State Department of Health Care Services, whenever it issues a license to operate an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, to concurrently provide written notification of the issuance of the license to the city or county in which the facility is located. The bill would require the notice to include the name and mailing address of the licensee and the location of the facility. (Based on 02/10/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 507 (Haney, D) Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. 60 15
Location: 07/02/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards, including that the development is a multifamily housing development that contains two or more residential units. This bill would deem an adaptive reuse project a use by right in all zones, regardless of the zoning of the site, and subject to a streamlined, ministerial review process if the project meets specified requirements, subject to specified exceptions. In this regard, an adaptive reuse project, in order to qualify for the streamlined, ministerial review process, would be required to be proposed for an existing building that is less than 50 years old or meets certain requirements regarding the preservation of historic resources, including the signing of an affidavit declaring that the project will comply with the United States Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation for, among other things, the preservation of exterior facades of a building that face a street, or receive federal or state historic rehabilitation tax credits, as specified. The bill would require an adaptive reuse project to meet specified affordability criteria. In this regard, the bill would require an adaptive reuse project for rental housing to include either 8% of the unit for very low income households and 5% of the units for extremely low income households or 15% of the units for lower income households. (Based on 07/03/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 557 (McKinnor, D) California Factory-Built Housing Law.

Current Text: 04/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/11/2025 - Referred to Com. on HOUSING.

Location: 06/11/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: The California Factory-Built Housing Law requires all factory-built housing after a specified date that is sold or offered for sale to first users within the state to bear insignia of approval issued by the department, deems that housing to comply with the requirements of all ordinances or regulations enacted by any city, city and county, county, or district that may be applicable to the construction of housing, as specified, and prohibits a city, city and county, county, and district from requiring submittal of plans for any factory-built housing manufactured, or to be manufactured pursuant to these provisions, as specified.

Current law requires the department to provide by regulation for the qualification and disqualification of design approval agencies to perform approval of factory-built housing plans and specifications and makes approval by these agencies the equivalent of department approval. The law provides that any person who violates any of these provisions and other specified law is guilty of a misdemeanor, as specified. This bill would require plans or specifications of factory-built housing approved pursuant to these provisions to be approved by unit serial number and would authorize the approved plans or specifications to be used in subsequent development projects unless building standards relating to factory-built housing are modified, as specified. The bill would require the department and the design approval agencies to limit their review to the portions of a plan or specification that has not already received approval, as specified. (Based on 04/24/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 609 (Wicks, D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: housing development projects. 61 16
Current Text: 05/05/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/20/2025 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 05/20/2025 - Senate Rules
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements various projects, including, but not limited to, housing projects that meet certain requirements. This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA a housing development project, as defined, that meets certain conditions relating to, for example, size, density, and location, including specific requirements for any housing on the project site located within 500 feet of a freeway. The bill would require a local government, as a condition of approval for the development, to require the development proponent to complete a specified environmental assessment regarding hazardous substance releases. If a recognized environmental condition is found, the bill would require the development proponent to complete a preliminary endangerment assessment and specified mitigation based on that assessment. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a housing development project qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 05/05/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 610 (Alvarez, D) Housing element: governmental constraints: disclosure statement.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 06/18/2025 - Senate Local Government
Summary: The Housing Element Law prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, as specified. Current law provides that a housing element or amendment is considered substantially compliant with the Housing Element Law when the local agency has adopted a housing element or amendment, the department or a court of competent jurisdiction determines the adopted housing element or amendment to be in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law, and the department’s compliance findings have not been superseded by subsequent contrary findings by the department or by a decision of a court of competent jurisdiction or the court’s decision has not been overturned or superseded by a subsequent court decision or by statute. Current law requires the housing element to include an analysis of potential and actual governmental constraints upon the maintenance, improvement, or development of housing for all income levels, including, among others, locally adopted ordinances that directly impact the cost and supply of residential development. Current law also requires the analysis to demonstrate local efforts to remove governmental constraints that hinder the locality from meeting its share of the regional housing need. This bill would require the housing element to include, in addition to the above-described analysis, a potential and actual governmental constraints disclosure statement, as specified. The bill would also prohibit any new or amended covered potential or actual governmental constraint, as defined, or a more stringent revision of a covered potential or actual governmental constraint, from being adopted within 3 years from the date the housing element or amendment is considered in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law unless, among other things, the local agency submits to the department a copy of the policy, standard, or ordinance that includes the covered potential or actual governmental constraint, or the more stringent revision of the covered potential or actual governmental constraint, within a specified timeframe, or it was both (1) included in the disclosure statement, and (2) the local government has completed all of the housing element program 62 17
commitments to address and, where appropriate and legally possible, remove covered governmental constraints contained in the prior and current planning periods, or the adoption of the measure is required by state or federal law and the local government has taken specified actions. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 650 (Papan, D) Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation.

Current Text: 04/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: Current law requires a public agency to administer its programs and activities relating to housing and community development in a manner to affirmatively further fair housing, and take no action that is materially inconsistent with its obligation to affirmatively further fair housing. Current law defines “affirmatively furthering fair housing,” as provided. The Planning and Zoning Law requires that a housing element include, among other things, a program that sets forth a schedule of actions during the planning period. Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a standardized reporting format for programs and actions taken pursuant to the requirement to affirmatively further fair housing. This bill would require the department to develop the above-described standardized reporting format on or before December 31, 2026. (Based on 04/24/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 660 (Wilson, D) Planning and Zoning Law: postentitlement phase permits: Housing Accountability Act.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a local agency, as defined, to compile one or more lists that specify in detail the information required from any applicant for a postentitlement phase permit, as defined. Current law also establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application for a postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant, and whether to approve or deny an application. If a local agency finds that a complete application is noncompliant, current law requires the local agency to provide the applicant with a list of items that are noncompliant and a description of how the application can be remedied by the applicant within specified time limits. Current law requires the time limits to be tolled, if the local agency requires review of the application by an outside entity, until the outside entity completes the review and returns the application to the local agency, as specified. This bill would prohibit the local agency from requiring or requesting more than 2 plan check and specification reviews in connection with an application for a building permit, as part of its review, except as specified. The bill would authorize a local agency to deny an application that is not compliant with the permit standards following 2 submittals. The bill would also authorize an applicant to request additional submittals of applications that are not compliant with the permit standards. (Based on 07/03/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
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AB 712 (Wicks, D) Housing reform laws: enforcement actions: fines and penalties.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

Location: 05/21/2025 - Senate Judiciary
Summary: Current law within the Planning and Zoning Law describes various reforms and incentives enacted by the Legislature to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Current law within the Planning and Zoning Law, in certain civil actions or proceedings against a public entity that has issued specified approvals for a housing development, authorizes a court to award all reasonably incurred costs of suit to a prevailing public entity or nonprofit housing corporation that is a real party in interest and the permit applicant of the low- or moderate-income housing if the court makes specified findings. This bill, where the applicant for a housing development is a prevailing party in an action brought by the applicant to enforce the public agency’s compliance with a housing reform law as applied to the applicant’s housing development project, would entitle an applicant for a housing development project to reasonable attorney’s fees and costs and would require a court to impose fines on a local agency, as specified. The bill would extend any period of limitation for actions under any state law for a period of 60 days beginning on the date the applicant provides written notice to the local agency indicating its intent to commence an action. The bill would prohibit a public agency from requiring the applicant to indemnify, defend, or hold harmless the public agency in any action alleging the public agency violated the applicant’s rights or deprived the applicant of the benefits or protection provide by a housing reform law. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Legal and Records Management, Planning, Land Use, Housing Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 735 (Carrillo, D) Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.

Current Text: 06/25/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/27/2025 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Location: 06/18/2025 - Senate Local Government
Summary: Current law, beginning January 1, 2026, prescribes various statewide warehouse design and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use developments, as specified, including, among other things, standards for building design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and signage. Current law defines various terms, including “21st century warehouse,” and “tier 1 21st century warehouse,” for purposes of those provisions as logistics uses that, among other things, comply with specified building and energy efficiency standards, including requirements related to the availability of conduits and electrical hookups to power climate control equipment at loading bays, as specified. Current law, subject to specified exceptions, defines “logistics use” for these purposes to mean a building in which cargo, goods, or products are moved or stored for later distribution to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. This bill would clarify that a 21st century warehouse and a tier 1 21st century warehouse are required to comply with those standards as are in effect at the time that the building permit for a development of a 21st century warehouse is issued and make other clarifying changes relating to permissibility of use of conduits and electrical hookups at loading bays at those locations. (Based on 06/25/2025 text)
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 736 (Wicks, D) The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026. 64 19
Current Text: 04/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/04/2025 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 06/04/2025 - Senate Rules
Summary: Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.

Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and home ownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program. (Based on 04/10/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 782 (Quirk-Silva, D) Subdivisions: security.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Summary: The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps, and the modification of those maps. Current law requires the Real Estate Commissioner to make an examination of any subdivision, and to, unless there are grounds for denial, issue to the subdivider a public report authorizing the sale or lease of the lots or parcels within the subdivision. Current law specifies the grounds for denial, including, among other things, the inability to demonstrate that adequate financial arrangements have been made for all offsite improvements included in the offering or the inability to demonstrate that adequate financial arrangements have been made for any community, recreational, or other facilities included in the offering. This bill would prohibit the Real Estate Commissioner, in issuing a public report for a residential development or project, from requiring the furnishing of a security in connection with the performance of any act or agreement related to an improvement if the Real Estate Commissioner determines that sufficient security has been furnished to a local agency for the same improvement pursuant to the provisions above requiring security under the Subdivision Map Act. (Based on 07/03/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 818 (Ávila Farías, D) Permit Streamlining Act: local emergencies.

Current Text: 06/25/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2).

Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency to determine whether an application for a development project is complete within specified time periods, as specified. The act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within 65 20
specified time periods. The California Emergency Services Act authorizes the governing body of a city, county, or city and county to proclaim a local emergency under certain circumstances, as specified, and grants political subdivisions various powers and authorities in periods of local emergency. This bill would exempt projects related to the rebuilding or repair of an affected property, as defined, from specified requirements for solar panel installations, as provided. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to approve an application, within 10 business days of receipt of the application, for a building permit for any of the specified structures intended to be used by a person until the rebuilding or repair of an affected property is complete. By imposing new duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/25/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 920 (Caloza, D) Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects: centralized application portal.

Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/07/2025 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Current law requires a city or county that has an internet website to, among other things, make a fee estimate tool that the public can use to calculate an estimate of fees and exactions for a proposed housing development project available on its internet website. This bill would require a city or county with a population of 150,000 or more persons to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website to applicants for housing development projects, as prescribed. The bill would, notwithstanding that provision, authorize a city or county described above to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website no later than January 1, 2030, if the legislative body of the city or county, on or before January 1, 2028, takes certain action, including initiating a procurement process to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website.

The bill would require the centralized application portal to allow for tracking of the status of an application.

The bill would specify that a city or county is not required to provide the status of any permit or inspection required by another local agency, a state agency, or a utility provider. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 961 (Ávila Farías, D) Hazardous materials: California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004.

Current Text: 02/20/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - VOTE: Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar (PASS)
Location: 07/08/2025 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: The California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004 provides, among other things, that an innocent landowner, bona fide purchaser, or contiguous property owner, as defined, qualifies for immunity from liability from certain state statutory and common laws for pollution conditions caused by a release or threatened release of a hazardous material if specified conditions are met, including entering into an agreement for a specified site assessment and response plan. The act prohibits the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the State Water Resources Control Board, and a California regional water quality control board from requiring one of those persons to take a response action under certain state laws, except 66 21
as specified. Existing law repeals the act on January 1, 2027. Current law provides that a person who qualifies for immunity under the act before January 1, 2027, shall continue to have that immunity on and after January 1, 2027. This bill would extend the repeal date of the act to January 1, 2037, and would provide that a person who qualifies for immunity under the act before January 1, 2037, shall continue to have that immunity on and after January 1, 2037, if the person continues to be in compliance with the requirements of the former act. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 996 (Pellerin, D) Public Resources: sea level rise plans.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/07/2025 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Location: 07/07/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Current law requires local governments lying in whole or in part within the coastal zone or within the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission to, on or before January 1, 2034, develop a sea level rise plan with specified required content as part of a local coastal program that is subject to approval by the California Coastal Commission or the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. This bill would authorize the applicable commission, when approving a local coastal plan or an amendment to a local coastal plan, to deem existing sea level rise information or plans prepared by a local government to satisfy the content requirements for a sea level rise plan. (Based on 05/23/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 1026 (Wilson, D) Public utilities: electrical corporations: energization.

Current Text: 07/08/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.

Location: 07/01/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: The Powering Up Californians Act requires the Public Utilities Commission, on or before September 30, 2024, to establish reasonable average and maximum target energization time periods, as defined, and a procedure for customers to report energization delays to the commission, as provided. The act requires the commission to require the electrical corporation to take remedial actions necessary to achieve the commission’s targets and requires all reports to be publicly available. This bill would require the commission, in a new or existing proceeding, to require each large electrical corporation to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny an application for energization, to post an example of a complete, approved energization application and an example of a complete energization application for a housing development project, and to make those items available on its internet website by a date specified by the commission. The bill would also require the commission to require each large electrical corporation to determine if an application for energization is complete and provide notice or otherwise provide certain information under a specified procedure. (Based on 07/08/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
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AB 1050 (Schultz, D) Unlawfully restrictive covenants: housing developments: reciprocal easement agreements.

Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/07/2025 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: Current law provides that specified recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, or private limits on the use of land contained in specified instruments affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in real property are not enforceable against the owner of an affordable housing development, as defined, if an approved restrictive covenant affordable housing modification document has been recorded in the public record, as provided. As part of this process, current law requires the owner to submit to the county recorder a copy of the original restrictive covenant and any documents the owner believes necessary to establish that the property qualifies as an affordable housing development and requires the county counsel to determine, among other things, if the property qualifies as an affordable housing development and if a modification document may be recorded. Current law provides that these provisions do not authorize any development that is not otherwise consistent with local general plans, zoning ordinances, and any applicable specific plan. This bill would extend those provisions to any housing development that is owned or controlled by an entity or individual that has submitted a development project application to redevelop an existing commercial property, and the development project includes residential uses permitted by state housing laws or local land use and zoning regulations and would make various conforming changes. The bill would additionally make these provisions applicable to covenants, conditions, restrictions, or private limits contained in a reciprocal easement agreement, as provided. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 1061 (Quirk-Silva, D) Housing developments: urban lot splits: historical resources.

Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/23/2025 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 06/17/2025 - Senate Local Government
Summary: Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a county or city may adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land, as provided. The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps. Current law requires a local agency to consider ministerially a specified proposed housing development or to ministerially approve a parcel map for an urban lot split if the development or parcel meets specified requirements, including, that the development or parcel is not located within a historic district or property included on the State Historic Resources Inventory or within a site that is designated or listed as a city or county landmark or historic property or district pursuant to city or county ordinance, as specified. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose specified objective standards on the development or parcel created by an urban lot split, except as specified. With respect to ministerial review of a proposed housing development under the above-described provisions, this bill would, if the other specified requirements are met, instead require a local agency to consider ministerially the development that is not located on a parcel individually listed as a historical resource included in the State Historical Resources Inventory, as specified, or within a property individually designated or listed as a city or county landmark under a city or county ordinance. The bill would additionally prohibit the development from demolishing more than 25% of the exterior wall area or affecting the character-defining exterior features of a contributing structure, as specified. (Based on 06/23/2025 text)
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Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1154 (Carrillo, D) Junior accessory dwelling units.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 05/07/2025 - Senate Local Government
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, provides for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Current law requires an ordinance that provides for the creation of a junior accessory dwelling unit to, among other things, require owner-occupancy in the single-family residence in which the junior accessory dwelling unit is permitted. Under this bill, that owneroccupancy requirement would apply only if the junior accessory dwelling unit has shared sanitation facilities with the existing structure. The bill would require an ordinance that provides for the creation of a junior accessory dwelling unit to require that a rental of a junior accessory dwelling unit be for a term longer than 30 days. (Based on 07/03/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1206 (Harabedian, D) Single-family and multifamily housing units: preapproved plans.

Current Text: 06/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/24/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.

Location: 06/18/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules and regulations by counties and cities and the implementation of those general plans as may be in effect in those counties or cities. In that regard, current law requires each local agency, by January 1, 2025, to develop a program for the preapproval of accessory dwelling unit plans. This bill would require each local agency, as defined and by July 1, 2026, to develop a program for the preapproval of single-family and multifamily residential housing plans, whereby the local agency accepts single-family and multifamily plan submissions for preapproval and approves or denies the preapproval applications, as specified. The bill would authorize a local agency to charge a fee to an applicant for the preapproval of a single-family or multifamily residential housing plan, as specified. The bill would require the local agency to post preapproved single-family or multifamily residential housing plans and the contact information of the applicant on the local agency’s internet website. The bill would require an application for preapproval to include a statement by the applicant that the applicant has sufficient authority, license, or ownership interest in the plan to submit the plan for preapproval and, if approved, posted as described above. The bill would prohibit the preapproval program from applying to single-family or multifamily residential housing plans intended for use in certain communities and developments, as specified. The bill would require a local agency to either approve or deny an application for a single-family or multifamily residential housing unit, both as defined, within 30 days if the lot meets certain conditions and the application utilizes either a singlefamily or multifamily residential housing unit plan preapproved within the current triennial California Building Standards Code rulemaking cycle or a plan that is identical to a plan used in an application for a single-family or multifamily residential housing unit approved by the local agency within the current triennial California Building Standards Code rulemaking cycle. (Based on 06/24/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
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Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 1276 (Carrillo, D) Housing developments: ordinances, policies, and standards.

Current Text: 06/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 1).

Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 06/04/2025 - Senate Local Government
Summary: The Planning and Zoning law, among other things, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards. The Housing Accountability Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project, as defined for purposes of the act, for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter unless the local agency makes specified written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. That act states that it shall not be construed to prohibit a local agency from requiring a housing development project to comply with objective, quantifiable, written development standards, conditions, and policies appropriate to, and consistent with, meeting the jurisdiction's share of the regional housing need, except as provided. The act further provides that for its purposes, a housing development project or emergency shelter shall be deemed consistent, compliant, and in conformity with an applicable plan, program, policy, ordinance, standard, requirement, or other similar provision if there is substantial evidence that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the housing development project or emergency shelter is consistent, compliant, or in conformity. The act requires a housing development project to be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards adopted and in effect when a preliminary application, as specified, was submitted, except as otherwise provided. The act defines "ordinances, policies, and standards" to include general plan, community plan, specific plan, zoning, design review standards and criteria, subdivision standards and criteria, and any other rules, regulations, requirements, and policies of a local agency, as defined, including those relating to development impact fees, capacity or connection fees or charges, permit or processing fees, and other exactions. This bill would include in the definition of "ordinances, policies, and standards" materials requirements, postentitlement permit standards, and any rules, regulations, determinations, and other requirements adopted or implemented by other public agencies, as defined. (Based on 06/10/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 1294 (Haney, D) Planning and zoning: housing development: standardized application form.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 06/11/2025 - Senate Local Government
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act, among other things, requires each public agency to provide a development project applicant with a list that specifies the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. The act requires a public agency that has received an application for a development project to determine in writing whether the application is complete within 30 calendar days and to immediately transmit the determination to the applicant of the development project. This bill would require that an application for a housing entitlement, as defined, be deemed complete upon payment of the permit processing fees and upon completing specified requirements, when applicable, including, among other things, providing a description of the proposed housing development project and a list of the approvals requested by the applicant to the city, county, or city and county from which approval for the housing 70 25
entitlement is being sought. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2026, the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt a standardized application form that applicants for a housing entitlement may use for the purpose of satisfying these requirements and would require, on or after October 1, 2026, a city, county, or city and county to accept an application submitted on the standardized application form. The bill would prohibit the city, county, or city and county from requiring submission of any other forms, beside the standardized application form, except as specified. The bill would authorize the city, county, or city and county to develop its own application forms or templates for different housing entitlements, subject to the requirements of this bill. This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from requiring certain information or approvals, including, among others, any approval or determination by any official, body, department, or subdepartment of the city, county, or city and county as a condition of determining that an application for a housing entitlement is complete. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 1308 (Hoover, R) Residential building permits: fees: inspections.

Current Text: 04/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/04/2025 - Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING.

Location: 06/04/2025 - Senate Local Government
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law authorizes a county’s or city’s governing body to prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or authorized under the State Housing Law. Current law entitles a permittee to reimbursement of the permit fees if the county or city fails to conduct an inspection of the permitted work for which the permit fees have been charged within 60 days of receiving notice of completion of the permitted work. This bill would require a county’s or city’s building department to prepare a residential building permit fee schedule and post the schedule on the county’s or city’s internet website, if the county or city prescribes residential building permit fees. (Based on 04/24/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 9 (Arreguín, D) Accessory Dwelling Units: ordinances.

Current Text: 06/19/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/19/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 06/18/2025 - Assembly Local Government
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a local agency to submit an accessory dwelling unit ordinance to the Department of Housing and Community Development within 60 days after adoption. The law authorizes the department to submit written findings to a local agency as to whether the ordinance complies with the standards. If the department finds that the ordinance does not comply with the standards, the law requires the department to provide a local agency reasonable time, no longer than 30 days, to respond to its findings. If the local agency does not amend its ordinance in response to those findings or does not adopt a resolution with findings explaining the reason the ordinance complies with the standards and addressing the department’s findings, the law requires the department to notify the local agency and authorizes the department to notify the Attorney General that the local agency is in violation of state law. This bill would invalidate the ordinance if the local agency fails to submit a copy of the ordinance to the 71 26
department within 60 days of adoption or fails to respond to the department’s findings that the ordinance does not comply with the standards within 30 days, as described above. (Based on 06/19/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 79 (Wiener, D) Housing development: transit-oriented development.

Current Text: 07/08/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Assembly Local Government
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that contains certain mandatory elements, including a land use element and a housing element. The Housing Accountability Act requires a local agency that proposes to disapprove a housing development project, as defined, or to impose a condition that the project be developed at a lower density to base its decision on written findings supported by a preponderance of the evidence that specified conditions exist if that project complies with applicable, objective general plan, zoning, and subdivision standards and criteria in effect at the time that the application was deemed complete. The act authorizes the applicant, a person who would be eligible to apply for residency in the housing development project or emergency shelter, or a housing organization to bring an action to enforce the act’s provisions, as provided, and provides for penalties if the court finds that the local agency is in violation of specified provisions of the act. This bill would require that a housing development project, as defined, within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development (TOD) stop, as defined, be an allowed use as a transit-oriented housing development on any site zoned for residential, mixed, or commercial development, if the development complies with applicable requirements, as specified. Among these requirements, the bill would establish requirements concerning height limits, density, and floor area ratio in accordance with a development’s proximity to specified tiers of TOD stops, as provided. The bill would provide that, for the purposes of the Housing Accountability Act, a proposed development consistent with the applicable standards of these provisions shall be deemed consistent, compliant, and in conformity with prescribed requirements, as specified. The bill would provide that a local government that denies a project meeting the requirements of these provisions located in a high-resource area, as defined, would be presumed in violation of the Housing Accountability Act, as specified, and immediately liable for penalties, as provided. The bill would specify that a development proposed pursuant to these provisions is eligible for streamlined, ministerial approval pursuant to specified law, except that the bill would exempt a project under these provisions from specified requirements and would specify that the project is required to comply with certain affordability requirements, under that law. (Based on 07/08/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 92 (Blakespear, D) Housing development: density bonuses.

Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/07/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Assembly Local Government
Summary: The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct specified units and meets other requirements. This bill would specify that a concession and incentive shall not result 72 27
in a proposed project, as prescribed, with a specified commercial floor area ratio. The bill would also specify that certain provisions of the Density Bonus Law do not require a city, county, or city and county to approve, grant a concession or incentive requiring approval of, or waive or reduce development standards otherwise applicable to, transient lodging as part of a housing development, except as specified. (Based on 07/07/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 328 (Grayson, D) Hazardous waste generation and handling fees: Department of Toxic Substances Control oversight responses: housing development projects.

Current Text: 06/25/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1).

Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.

Location: 07/01/2025 - Assembly Revenue and Taxation
Summary: The hazardous waste control laws require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to regulate the handling and management of hazardous waste and hazardous materials. Current law, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, establishes time limits for a local agency, as defined, to complete reviews regarding whether to approve or deny an application, as specified, and makes any failure to meet these time limits a disapproval of the housing development project and a violation of specified law. Upon the department receiving a request for a housing development project seeking oversight of investigation, characterization, and remediation activities, this bill would require the department to provide written notice to the requestor within specified timelines regarding subsequent actions in the review process, as specified.

The bill would require, for a housing development with 25 units or fewer, the department to provide the written notice within 60 business days of receiving the request. The bill would require, for a housing development with 26 units or more, the department to provide the written notice within 120 business days of receiving the request. The bill would make these provisions operative on July 1, 2028. (Based on 06/25/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 329 (Blakespear, D) Alcohol and drug recovery or treatment facilities: investigations.

Current Text: 03/28/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - July 2 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Current law provides for the licensure and regulation of alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities by the State Department of Health Care Services. Current law prohibits operating an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility to provide recovery, treatment, or detoxification services within this state without first obtaining a current valid license. If a facility is alleged to be providing those services without a license, existing law requires the department to conduct a site visit to investigate the allegation. Current law also authorizes the department to conduct announced or unannounced site visits to licensed facilities for the purpose of reviewing them for compliance, as specified. This bill would require the department to assign a complaint under its jurisdiction regarding an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility to an analyst for investigation within 10 days of receiving the complaint. If the department receives a complaint that does not fall under its jurisdiction, the bill would require the department to notify the complainant, in writing, that it does not investigate that type of complaint. (Based on 03/28/2025 text) Position: Support
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Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 346 (Durazo, D) Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator.

Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/07/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

Location: 07/03/2025 - Assembly Judiciary
Summary: Current law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to regulate the occupancy of a room or rooms, or other living space, in a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, or other lodging for a period of less than 30 days. This bill would authorize a local agency, defined to mean a city, county, or city and county, to enact an ordinance to require a short-term rental facilitator, as defined, to report, in the form and manner prescribed by the local agency, the physical address, including 9-digit ZIP Code, of each shortterm rental, as defined, during the reporting period. The bill would also authorize a local agency to request additional information, as provided, when the physical address is not sufficient for the local agency to identify a specific short-term rental. The bill would authorize the local agency to impose an administrative fine or penalty for failure to file the report, and would authorize the local agency to initiate an audit of a shortterm rental facilitator, as described. The bill would require a short-term rental facilitator, in a jurisdiction that has adopted an ordinance, to include in the listing of a short-term rental any applicable local license number associated with the short-term rental and any transient occupancy tax certification issued by a local agency. (Based on 07/07/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 358 (Becker, D) Mitigation Fee Act: mitigating vehicular traffic impacts.

Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/07/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 07/03/2025 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: The Mitigation Fee Act imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project.

Current law requires a local agency that imposes a fee on a housing development for the purpose of mitigating vehicular traffic impacts to set the rate for that fee, if the housing development satisfies all of certain prescribed characteristics, to reflect a lower rate of automobile trip generation associated with such housing developments in comparison with housing developments without the prescribed characteristics, unless the local agency adopts findings after a public hearing establishing that the housing development, even with those characteristics, would not generate fewer automobile trips than a housing development without those characteristics. This bill would require those findings to be supported by substantial evidence in the record before or as part of the housing development project approval process. (Based on 07/07/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 415 (Reyes, D) Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.

Current Text: 06/26/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
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Status: 06/26/2025 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 06/09/2025 - Assembly Local Government
Summary: Current law, beginning January 1, 2026, prescribes various statewide warehouse design and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use developments, as specified, including, among other things, standards for building design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and signage. Existing law defines various terms, including “21st century warehouse,” and “tier 1 21st century warehouse,” for purposes of those provisions as logistics uses that, among other things, comply with specified building and energy efficiency standards, including requirements related to the availability of conduits and electrical hookups to power climate control equipment at loading bays, as specified. Current law, subject to specified exceptions, defines “logistics use” for these purposes to mean a building in which cargo, goods, or products are moved or stored for later distribution to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. This bill would clarify that a 21st century warehouse and a tier 1 21st century warehouse are required to comply with those standards as are in effect at the time that the building permit for a development of a 21st century warehouse is issued and make other clarifying changes relating to permissibility of use of conduits and electrical hookups at loading bays at those locations. The bill would revise the definition of “logistics use” and instead define “logistics use development” for these purposes to mean a building that is primarily used as a warehouse for the movement or the storage of cargo, goods, or products that are moved to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. (Based on 06/26/2025 text) Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 445 (Wiener, D) Transportation: planning: Sustainable Transportation Project Delivery Reform Act.

Current Text: 06/30/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/07/2025 - Assembly Rule 56 suspended.

Location: 06/30/2025 - Assembly Transportation
Summary: Would enact the Sustainable Transportation Project Delivery Reform Act. The bill would authorize the Secretary of Transportation to grant a waiver to a local agency, as defined, that is seeking to design and construct a sustainable transportation project, as defined, from any standards, criteria, specifications, requirements, or other conditions of a third party, as defined, applicable to the sustainable transportation project if the secretary determines that granting the waiver will assist the local agency in delivering the sustainable transportation project in a cost-efficient and timely manner. This bill would also require a third party, which is defined as a local agency or utility, to publish online by July 1, 2026, a list of every permit or approval that it may require for a facility rearrangement, as defined, and all objective standards, criteria, specifications, and requirements used in evaluating requests by lead agencies, as defined, for delivery of facility rearrangements, as specified. The bill would require the lead agency to provide a specified notice to each third party it reasonably expects it will need to get permits or approvals from or otherwise coordinate with to deliver the facility rearrangements. The bill would set forth a process for delivering the notice and responding to the notices, including by entering into a cooperative agreement or entering into a streamlined project delivery process, as described. The bill would, as part of the streamlined project delivery process, set forth timelines and specifications for submitting and responding to various information and documents for the facility rearrangements, among other things. (Based on 06/30/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
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SB 456 (Ashby, D) Contractors: exemptions: muralists.

Current Text: 04/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17.

Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 07/08/2025 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: The Contractors State License Law establishes the Contractors State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of contractors. Current law makes it a misdemeanor for a person to engage in the business, or act in the capacity, of a contractor without a license, unless exempted. Current law exempts from the Contractors State License Law a nonprofit corporation providing assistance to an owner, as specified. This bill would exempt from that law an artist who draws, paints, applies, executes, restores, or conserves a mural, as defined, pursuant to an agreement with a person who could legally authorize the work. (Based on 04/02/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 489 (Arreguín, D) Local agency formation commissions: written policies and procedures: Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects.

Current Text: 04/21/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/18/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: 06/18/2025 - Assembly Housing and Community Development Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 governs the procedures for the formation and change of organization of cities and special districts and establishes a local agency formation commission in each county consisting of members appointed as provided. The act expresses the intent of the Legislature that each local agency formation commission, by January 1, 2002, establish written policies and procedures and exercise its powers in a way that encourages and provides planned, well-ordered, efficient urban development patterns, as specified. The act requires these written policies and procedures to include forms to be used for various submittals to the commission, as provided.

The act requires each commission to provide access to notices and other information to the public on an internet website, as specified, including notice of all public hearings and commission meetings. This bill would require that each local agency formation commission establish the written policies and procedures described above. The bill would require that the written policies and procedures include any forms necessary for a complete application to the commission concerning a proposed change of organization or reorganization. (Based on 04/21/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 499 (Stern, D) Residential projects: fees and charges: emergency services.

Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. 76 31
Location: 07/08/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The Mitigation Fee Act imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project. If a local agency imposes any fees or charges on designated residential developments for the construction of public improvements or facilities, current law imposes various conditions on the fees and charges. Among these conditions, existing law prohibits the local agency from requiring the payment of those fees or charges until the date the first certificate of occupancy or first temporary certificate of occupancy is issued, whichever occurs first, except as specified. Current law authorizes a local agency to require the payment of those fees or charges earlier if the local agency determines, among other things, that the fees or charges will be collected for other types of public improvements or facilities, public improvements or facilities related to providing fire, public safety, and emergency services to the residential development. This bill would specify that the public improvements or facilities related to providing fire, public safety, and emergency services for which a local agency may require the earlier payment of fees and charges under the above-described provisions include parkland and recreational facilities identified in the local agency’s safety element or local hazard mitigation plan for an emergency purpose, as specified. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety
SB 549 (Allen, D) Local government: Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act: Resilient Rebuilding Authority for the Los Angeles Wildfires.

Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/25/2025 - July 2 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

Location: 06/05/2025 - Assembly Local Government
Summary: The Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act, or NIFTI-2, authorizes a city, county, or city and county to adopt a resolution, at any time before or after the adoption of the infrastructure financing plan for an enhanced infrastructure financing district, to allocate tax revenues of that entity to the district, including revenues derived from local sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or transactions and use taxes imposed in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, if certain conditions are met, including that the boundaries of the enhanced infrastructure financing district are coterminous with the city or county that established the district. This bill would revise NIFTI-2 to instead authorize, for resolutions adopted under that act’s provisions on or after January 1, 2026, a city, county, or city and county to adopt a resolution, at any time before or after the adoption of the infrastructure financing plan for an enhanced infrastructure financing district, to allocate property tax revenues, and to remove the authorization for adoption of a resolution that allocates revenues derived from local sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or transactions and use taxes. The bill would also repeal the condition that the boundaries of the enhanced infrastructure financing district are coterminous with the city or county that established the district (Based on 06/23/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing SB 710 (Blakespear, D) Property taxation: active solar energy systems: extension.

Current Text: 07/08/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on REV. & TAX. 77 32
Location: 06/16/2025 - Assembly REV. & TAX SUSPENSE FILE Summary: The California Constitution generally limits the maximum rate of ad valorem tax on real property to 1% of the full cash value of the property and defines “full cash value” for these purposes as the appraised value of real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership has occurred after the 1975 assessment. Pursuant to constitutional authorization, existing property tax law excludes from the definition of “newly constructed” for these purposes the construction or addition of any active solar energy system, as defined, through the 2025–26 fiscal year. Under current property tax law, this exclusion remains in effect only until there is a subsequent change in ownership, but an active solar energy system that qualifies for the exclusion before January 1, 2027, continues to receive the exclusion until there is a subsequent change in ownership. Current law repeals these exclusion provisions on January 1, 2027. This bill would extend the exclusion to lien dates occurring on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2031, and would limit the exclusion to qualified active solar energy systems, as defined. (Based on 07/08/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 786 (Arreguín, D) Planning and zoning: general plan: judicial challenges.

Current Text: 05/01/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (July 2). Rereferred to Com. on JUD.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Assembly Judiciary
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and of certain land outside its boundaries, and requires the general plan to contain specified mandatory elements. Current law specifies that these provisions generally do not apply to a charter city, but requires a charter city to adopt a general plan that contains the mandatory elements, among other things. Current law prescribes a process to challenge the validity of a general plan. Among other things, existing law requires a petitioner to request a hearing or trial, as specified. Current law requires a court to set a date for the hearing or trial to be heard no later than 120 days after the filing of the request, as specified. Current law authorizes a court to continue for a reasonable time the date of the hearing or trial upon written motion and finding of good cause. Current law requires a court to grant the petitioner temporary relief if the court grants a continuance to a respondent, as specified.

This bill would apply to the above-described process to challenge the validity of a general plan to a charter city and state that this is declaratory of existing law. The bill would limit the period for which a court may continue a trial or hearing, as described above, to no more than 60 days and would additionally authorize a court to grant a continuance on the court’s own motion. (Based on 05/01/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 789 (Menjivar, D) Taxation: information returns: vacant commercial real property.

Current Text: 04/30/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

Location: 05/12/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Summary: Current statutory law, the Documentary Transfer Tax Act, authorizes the imposition of a tax by a county or city, as provided, with respect to specified instruments that transfer specified interests in real property. Current law establishes the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration for the purpose of administering various taxes. This bill would require a person, as defined, that owns commercial property, as defined, in this state to register with the department, as provided. The bill would require every person owning commercial real property in this state to file an information return each year by a date determined by the department, as provided. The bill would require the information return to include specified information, including, among other requirements, whether any buildings or portions of buildings were vacant in the previous calendar year. The bill would authorize extensions of the time for a person to file an information return under specified circumstances, including for good cause. The bill would impose on any person who fails or refuses to timely furnish a return required by its provisions a penalty of $100 per commercial property that the person fails or refuses to timely furnish the information return. The bill would authorize the Director of Finance to make a loan from the General Fund to the department to implement those provisions, and would require any loan to be repaid from revenues from penalties imposed. (Based on 04/30/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing Public Safety
AB 15 (Gipson, D) Open unsolved murder: review and reinvestigation.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/18/2025 - Referred to Com. on PUB. S.

Location: 06/18/2025 - Senate Public Safety
Summary: Would require a law enforcement agency to review the casefile regarding an open unsolved murder upon written application by certain persons to determine if a reinvestigation would result in probative investigative leads, as specified. The bill would define an open unsolved murder as a murder committed after January 1, 1990, but no less than 3 years prior to the date of the application for case review, that was investigated by a law enforcement agency, for which all probative investigative leads have been exhausted and for which no suspect has been identified. If the review determines that a reinvestigation would result in probative investigative leads, this bill would require a reinvestigation, as specified. The bill would allow only one reinvestigation from being undertaken at any one time with respect to the same victim. (Based on 05/23/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
AB 237 (Patel, D) Crimes: threats.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 07/01/2025 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: Current law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement is to be taken as a threat that, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby reasonably causes the threatened person to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of their immediate family, as defined. Under current law, this crime is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for no more than one year for a misdemeanor, or by imprisonment in state prison for a felony. This bill would make it a crime for a person to willfully threaten, by any means, including, 79 34
but not limited to, an image or threat posted or published on an internet web page, to commit a crime at specified locations, including a daycare and workplace, with specific intent that the statement is be taken as a threat, even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out, if the threat, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person or persons threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and if the threat causes a person or person to reasonably be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of others at the specified locations. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
AB 262 (Caloza, D) California Individual Assistance Act.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/11/2025 - Referred to Com. on G.O.

Location: 06/11/2025 - Senate Governmental Organization Summary: The California Disaster Assistance Act requires the Director of Emergency Services to provide financial assistance to local agencies for their personnel costs, equipment costs, and the cost of supplies and materials used during disaster response activities, incurred as a result of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, subject to specified criteria. The act continuously appropriates moneys in the Disaster Assistance Fund and its subsidiary account, the Earthquake Emergency Investigations Account, without regard to fiscal year, for purposes of the act. This bill would enact the California Individual Assistance Act to establish a grant program to provide financial assistance, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to local agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals for specified costs related to a disaster, as prescribed. The bill would require the director to allocate from the fund, subject to specified conditions, funds to meet the cost of expenses for those purposes. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Public Safety Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 339 (Ortega, D) Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.

Current Text: 06/18/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/18/2025 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.

Location: 06/11/2025 - Senate L., P.E. & R.

Current law requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Current law requires the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body, to give reasonable written notice, except in cases of emergency, as specified, to each recognized employee organization affected of any ordinance, rule, resolution, or regulation directly relating to matters within the scope of representation proposed to be adopted by the governing body or the designated boards and commissions. This bill would require the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body of a public agency, to give the recognized employee organization no less than 60 days’ written notice before issuing a request for proposals, request for quotes, or renewing or extending an existing contract to perform services that are 80 35
within the scope of work of the job classifications represented by the recognized employee organization. The bill would require the notice to include specified information, including the anticipated duration of the contract. (Based on 06/18/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Resources, Public Safety
AB 400 (Pacheco, D) Law enforcement: police canines.

Current Text: 02/04/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 1). Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 07/01/2025 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: Current law requires law enforcement agencies to maintain a policy on the use of force, as specified. Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) and charges it with, among other duties, developing uniform, minimum guidelines for adoption and promulgation by law enforcement agencies for use of force. This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2027, every law enforcement agency, as defined, with a canine unit to maintain a policy for the use of canines by the agency that, at a minimum, complies with the most recent standards established by POST. (Based on 02/04/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
AB 476 (González, Mark, D) Metal theft.

Current Text: 06/19/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/07/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 7).

Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

Location: 07/07/2025 - Senate Public Safety
Summary: Current law governs the business of buying, selling, and dealing in secondhand and used machinery and all ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals and alloys, also known as “junk.” Current law requires junk dealers and recyclers to keep a written record of all sales and purchases made in the course of their business, including the place and date of each sale or purchase of junk and a description of the item or items, as specified. Current law requires the written record to include a statement indicating either that the seller of the junk is the owner of it, or the name of the person they obtained the junk from, as shown on a signed transfer document. Current law prohibits a junk dealer or recycler from providing payment for nonferrous materials until the junk dealer or recycler obtains a copy of a valid driver’s license of the seller or other specified identification. Current law requires a junk dealer or recycler to preserve the written record for at least 2 years. This bill would require junk dealers and recyclers to include additional information in the written record, including the time and amount paid for each sale or purchase of junk made, and the name of the employee handling the transaction. The bill would revise the type of information required to be included in the description of the item or items of junk purchased or sold, as specified. The bill would require the statement referenced above indicating ownership or the name of the person from whom the seller obtained the junk from to be signed and would require the statement to include specified information, including the legal name, date of birth, and place of residence of the seller. (Based on 06/19/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure 81 36
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 992 (Irwin, D) Peace officers.

Current Text: 06/26/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/07/2025 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Location: 07/07/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Current law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a modern policing degree program and to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature outlining a plan to implement the program. Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training within the Department of Justice and requires the commission to approve and adopt the education criteria for peace officers, based on the recommendations in the report. This bill would repeal the requirement for the commission to approve and adopt the criteria described above. (Based on 06/26/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1263 (Gipson, D) Firearms: ghost guns.

Current Text: 03/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 1). Rereferred to Com. on JUD.

Location: 07/01/2025 - Senate Judiciary
Summary: Current law makes it a crime for a person to manufacture or cause to be manufactured specified firearms. Current law prohibits a person, other than a state-licensed firearms manufacturer, from using a computer numerical control (CNC) milling machine or three-dimensional printer to manufacture a firearm.

This bill would prohibit a person from knowingly or willfully causing another person to engage in the unlawful manufacture of firearms or knowingly or willfully aiding, abetting, prompting, or facilitating the unlawful manufacture of firearms, including the manufacture of assault weapons or .50 BMG rifles or the manufacture of any firearm using a three-dimensional printer or CNC milling machine, as specified. (Based on 03/24/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1284 (Committee on Emergency Management, ) Emergency services: catastrophic plans: recovery frameworks.

Current Text: 02/21/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - In committee: Held under submission.

Location: 04/30/2025 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Would require the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to develop state recovery frameworks for California’s catastrophic plans, as provided. The bill would also require the governing body of a political subdivision, as defined, to develop regional recovery frameworks for California’s catastrophic plans and would require OES to provide technical assistance in this regard. This bill would require OES and the governing bodies of political subdivisions, in developing recovery frameworks, to incorporate lessons learned from recent major disasters. The bill would require the recovery frameworks to be consistent with guidance 82 37
from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and to address, at a minimum, specified recovery support functions, including economic recovery, health and social services, and infrastructure systems. The bill would require OES to use, to the greatest extent possible, federal preparedness grant funding to offset the state, local, and tribal government costs associated with developing recovery frameworks. The bill would require the state and regional recovery frameworks to be completed by January 15, 2027. By imposing new duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 02/21/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Public Safety
SB 6 (Ashby, D) Controlled substances: xylazine.

Current Text: 12/02/2024 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 1). Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 07/01/2025 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: The California Uniform Controlled Substances Act categorizes controlled substances into 5 schedules and places the greatest restrictions on those substances contained in Schedule I. Under existing law, the substances in Schedule I are deemed to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use while substances in Schedules II through V are substances that have an accepted medical use, but have the potential for abuse. Current law restricts the prescription, furnishing, possession, sale, and use of controlled substances, and makes a violation of those laws a crime, except as specified. Current law defines drug paraphernalia and prohibits, among other things, the manufacture, sale, and possession, as specified, of drug paraphernalia. Current law excludes from these prohibitions any testing equipment that is designed, marketed, used, or intended to be used to analyze a substance for the presence of fentanyl, ketamine, gamma hydroxybutyric acid, or any analog of fentanyl. This bill would add xylazine to the list of Schedule III substances, as specified. If an animal drug containing xylazine that has been approved under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act is not available for sale in California, the bill would create an exception for a substance that is intended to be used to compound an animal drug, as specified. The bill would exclude from the prohibitions on paraphernalia any testing equipment to analyze a substance for the presence of xylazine. (Based on 12/02/2024 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
SB 19 (Rubio, D) Threats: schools and places of worship.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 1). Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 07/01/2025 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Current law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement is to be taken as a threat that, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby reasonably causes the threatened person to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of their immediate family, as defined. Under current law, this crime is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for no more than one year for a misdemeanor, or by imprisonment in state prison for a felony. This bill would make a person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to any person who may be on the grounds of a school or place of worship, with specific intent and under certain circumstances, and if the threat causes a person or persons reasonably to 83 38
be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of another person, guilty of a misdemeanor or felony punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a specified term, except that if the person is under 18 years of age, the bill would make the person guilty of an infraction and require the person to be referred to specified services in lieu of being declared a ward of the court, as specified. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Public Safety
SB 48 (Gonzalez, D) Immigration enforcement: schoolsites: prohibitions on access and sharing information.

Current Text: 04/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7.

Noes 2.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Assembly Judiciary
Summary: Would prohibit school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools and their personnel, to the extent possible, from granting permission to an immigration authority to access the nonpublic areas of a schoolsite, producing a pupil for questioning by an immigration authority at a schoolsite, or consenting to a search of any kind of the nonpublic areas of a schoolsite by an immigration authority, unless the immigration authority presents a valid judicial warrant or court order. The bill would require a local educational agency and its personnel, when presented with a valid judicial warrant or court order to carry out the above-described actions, to (1) request valid identification and a written statement of purpose from the immigration authority and retain copies of those documents and (2), as early as possible, notify the designated local educational agency administrator of the request and advise the immigration authority that the local educational agency administrator is required to provide direction before access to the nonpublic areas of a schoolsite or pupil may be granted. The bill would require a local educational agency and its personnel, if an immigration authority does not present a valid judicial warrant or court order, to (1), as early as possible, notify the designated local educational agency administrator of the request, (2) deny the immigration authority access to the nonpublic areas of the schoolsite, and (3) make a reasonable effort to have the denial witnessed and documented. The bill would also prohibit a local educational agency and its personnel from disclosing or providing, in writing, verbally, or in any other manner, the education records of or any information about a pupil, pupil’s family and household, school employee, or teacher to an immigration authority without a valid judicial warrant or court order directing the local educational agency or its personnel to do so. The bill would also require the Attorney General to publish model policies to assist K– 12 schools in responding to immigration issues pursuant to the above-described requirements. (Based on 04/23/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
SB 385 (Seyarto, R) Peace officers.

Current Text: 04/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/17/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 06/17/2025 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Current law required the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, on or before June 1, 2023, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a modern policing degree program and to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature outlining a plan to implement the program. Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training within the Department of Justice and requires the commission, within 2 years of the submission of the report, to approve and adopt the education criteria for 84 39
peace officers, based on the recommendations in the report. This bill would repeal the requirement for the commission to approve and adopt the criteria described above. (Based on 04/10/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
SB 499 (Stern, D) Residential projects: fees and charges: emergency services.

Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 07/08/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The Mitigation Fee Act imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project. If a local agency imposes any fees or charges on designated residential developments for the construction of public improvements or facilities, current law imposes various conditions on the fees and charges. Among these conditions, existing law prohibits the local agency from requiring the payment of those fees or charges until the date the first certificate of occupancy or first temporary certificate of occupancy is issued, whichever occurs first, except as specified. Current law authorizes a local agency to require the payment of those fees or charges earlier if the local agency determines, among other things, that the fees or charges will be collected for other types of public improvements or facilities, public improvements or facilities related to providing fire, public safety, and emergency services to the residential development. This bill would specify that the public improvements or facilities related to providing fire, public safety, and emergency services for which a local agency may require the earlier payment of fees and charges under the above-described provisions include parkland and recreational facilities identified in the local agency’s safety element or local hazard mitigation plan for an emergency purpose, as specified. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety
SB 569 (Blakespear, D) Department of Transportation: homeless encampments.

Current Text: 04/21/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/24/2025 - July 7 hearing postponed by committee.

Location: 06/16/2025 - Assembly Transportation
Summary: Current law authorizes the Department of Transportation to establish maintenance programs related to highway cleanup, as specified. This bill would require the department to establish a dedicated liaison to, among other things, facilitate communication with local governments and relevant state agencies with regard to addressing homeless encampments within the state highway system and to oversee the development and implementation of delegated maintenance agreements between local agencies and the department in which both work together to reduce and remove homeless encampments within the department’s jurisdiction. The bill would authorize the department to grant a single general entry permit for the duration of a delegated maintenance agreement to conduct activities authorized by the bill. The bill would require the department to submit an annual report to the Legislature summarizing specified information and recommendations regarding homeless encampments. (Based on 04/21/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
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SB 634 (Pérez, D) Local government: homelessness.

Current Text: 06/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 2).

Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: 07/03/2025 - Assembly Housing and Community Development Summary: The California Constitution authorizes a county or city to make and enforce within its limits all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws. Current law establishes procedures for the enactment of ordinances by counties and cities and makes a violation of a county or city ordinance, as applicable, a misdemeanor unless by ordinance it is made an infraction. This bill would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting a local ordinance, or enforcing an existing ordinance, that prohibits a person or organization from providing support services, as specified, to a person who is homeless or assisting a person who is homeless with any act related to basic survival. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. (Based on 06/24/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance, Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life, Public Safety SB 720 (Ashby, D) Automated traffic enforcement system programs.

Current Text: 05/01/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - July 7 hearing postponed by committee.

Location: 06/09/2025 - Assembly Transportation
Summary: Current law authorizes the limit line, intersection, or other places where a driver is required to stop to be equipped with an automated traffic enforcement system if the governmental agency utilizing the system meets certain requirements, including identifying the system with signs and ensuring that the system meets specified criteria on minimum yellow light change intervals. Current law authorizes, until January 1, 2032, the Cities of Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale, and Long Beach, and the City and County of San Francisco to establish a speed safety system pilot program for speed enforcement that utilizes a speed safety system in specified areas, if the system meets specified requirements. Existing law prescribes specified requirements for a notice of violation issued pursuant to these provisions, and requires a violation of a speed law that is recorded by a speed safety system to be subject only to a specified civil penalty. This bill would additionally authorize a city, county, or city and county to establish an automated traffic enforcement system program to use those systems to detect a violation of a traffic control signal, if the system meets specified requirements. The bill would require a violation of a traffic control signal that is recorded by an automated traffic enforcement system to be subject only to a $100 civil penalty, as specified. (Based on 05/01/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
SB 759 (Archuleta, D) Crimes: supervised release.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 1). Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 07/01/2025 - Assembly Appropriations
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Summary: Existing law requires the county agency supervising the release of a person on postrelease community supervision to petition a court to revoke, modify, or terminate postrelease community supervision if the agency determines, following application of its assessment processes, that intermediate sanctions are not appropriate. This bill would require the county agency supervising the release of a person on postrelease community supervision to also petition a court to revoke, modify, or terminate postrelease community supervision if the person has violated the terms of their release for a 3rd time and the person has committed a new felony or misdemeanor. By imposing additional duties on county agencies administering postrelease community supervision, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 05/23/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
State Budget Act
AB 227 (Gabriel, D) Budget Act of 2025.

Current Text: 01/10/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/03/2025 - Referred to Com. on BUDGET.

Location: 02/03/2025 - Assembly Budget
Summary: Would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2025–26 fiscal year. This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 01/10/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: State Budget Act
SB 65 (Wiener, D) Budget Act of 2025.

Current Text: 01/10/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 01/13/2025 - Read first time.

Location: 01/10/2025 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review
Summary: Would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2025–26 fiscal year. (Based on 01/10/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: State Budget Act
SBX1 3 (Wiener, D) Budget Act of 2024.

Current Text: 01/23/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 01/23/2025 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 2, Statutes of 2025 Location: 01/23/2025 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Would amend the Budget Act of 2024 by amending and adding appropriations and making other changes. This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 01/23/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: State Budget Act
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Transportation & Infrastructure
AB 476 (González, Mark, D) Metal theft.

Current Text: 06/19/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/07/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 7).

Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

Location: 07/07/2025 - Senate Public Safety
Summary: Current law governs the business of buying, selling, and dealing in secondhand and used machinery and all ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals and alloys, also known as “junk.” Current law requires junk dealers and recyclers to keep a written record of all sales and purchases made in the course of their business, including the place and date of each sale or purchase of junk and a description of the item or items, as specified. Current law requires the written record to include a statement indicating either that the seller of the junk is the owner of it, or the name of the person they obtained the junk from, as shown on a signed transfer document. Current law prohibits a junk dealer or recycler from providing payment for nonferrous materials until the junk dealer or recycler obtains a copy of a valid driver’s license of the seller or other specified identification. Current law requires a junk dealer or recycler to preserve the written record for at least 2 years. This bill would require junk dealers and recyclers to include additional information in the written record, including the time and amount paid for each sale or purchase of junk made, and the name of the employee handling the transaction. The bill would revise the type of information required to be included in the description of the item or items of junk purchased or sold, as specified. The bill would require the statement referenced above indicating ownership or the name of the person from whom the seller obtained the junk from to be signed and would require the statement to include specified information, including the legal name, date of birth, and place of residence of the seller. (Based on 06/19/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 978 (Hoover, R) Department of Transportation and local agencies: streets and highways: recycled materials.

Current Text: 07/01/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 07/08/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 requires the Director of Transportation, upon consultation with the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, to review and modify all bid specifications relating to the purchase of paving materials and base, subbase, and pervious backfill materials using certain recycled materials. Current law requires the specifications to be based on standards developed by the Department of Transportation for recycled paving materials and for recycled base, subbase, and pervious backfill materials. Current law requires a local agency that has jurisdiction over a street or highway, to the extent feasible and cost effective, to apply standard specifications that allow for the use of recycled materials in streets and highways, except as provided. Current law requires, until January 1, 2027, those standard specifications to allow recycled materials at or above the level allowed in the department’s standard specifications that went into effect on October 22, 2018, for specified materials. This bill would indefinitely require a local agency’s standard specifications to allow recycled materials at a level no less than the level allowed in the department’s specifications for those specified materials. If a local agency’s standard specifications do not allow for the use of recycled materials at a level that is equal to or greater than the level allowed in the department’s standard specifications on the basis that the use of those 88 43
recycled materials at those levels is not feasible, the bill would authorize a person bidding on a contract to supply materials subject to those specifications to request the local agency to provide the reason for that determination upon request and would require the local agency to respond to that request, as specified. (Based on 07/01/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
SB 71 (Wiener, D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: environmental leadership transit projects.

Current Text: 06/30/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/03/2025 - July 7 hearing postponed by committee.

Location: 06/09/2025 - Assembly Natural Resources
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements active transportation plans, pedestrian plans, or bicycle transportation plans for the restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and the related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles. This bill would extend the operation of the above-mentioned exemption indefinitely. The bill would also exempt a transit comprehensive operational analysis, as defined, a transit route readjustment, or other transit agency route addition, elimination, or modification, from the requirements of CEQA. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a plan qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/30/2025 text)
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
SB 74 (Seyarto, R) Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation: Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program.

Current Text: 04/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - July 2 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Current law establishes the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation in the Governor’s office for the purpose of serving the Governor and the Governor’s cabinet as staff for long-range planning and research and constituting the comprehensive state planning agency. Current law authorizes a local agency to finance infrastructure projects through various means, including by authorizing a city or county to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance that provide significant benefits to the district or the surrounding community.

This bill would require the office, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to establish the Infrastructure GapFund Program to provide grants to local agencies for the development and construction of infrastructure projects, as defined, facing unforeseen costs after starting construction. The bill would authorize the office to provide funding for up to 20% of a project’s additional projected cost, as defined, after the project has started construction, subject to specified conditions, including, among other things, that the local agency has allocated existing local tax revenue for at least 45% of the initially budgeted total cost of the infrastructure project. When applying to the program, the bill would require the local agency to demonstrate challenges with completing the project on time and on budget and how the infrastructure project helps meet state and local goals, as specified. (Based on 04/07/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
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SB 445 (Wiener, D) Transportation: planning: Sustainable Transportation Project Delivery Reform Act.

Current Text: 06/30/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/07/2025 - Assembly Rule 56 suspended.

Location: 06/30/2025 - Assembly Transportation
Summary: Would enact the Sustainable Transportation Project Delivery Reform Act. The bill would authorize the Secretary of Transportation to grant a waiver to a local agency, as defined, that is seeking to design and construct a sustainable transportation project, as defined, from any standards, criteria, specifications, requirements, or other conditions of a third party, as defined, applicable to the sustainable transportation project if the secretary determines that granting the waiver will assist the local agency in delivering the sustainable transportation project in a cost-efficient and timely manner. This bill would also require a third party, which is defined as a local agency or utility, to publish online by July 1, 2026, a list of every permit or approval that it may require for a facility rearrangement, as defined, and all objective standards, criteria, specifications, and requirements used in evaluating requests by lead agencies, as defined, for delivery of facility rearrangements, as specified. The bill would require the lead agency to provide a specified notice to each third party it reasonably expects it will need to get permits or approvals from or otherwise coordinate with to deliver the facility rearrangements. The bill would set forth a process for delivering the notice and responding to the notices, including by entering into a cooperative agreement or entering into a streamlined project delivery process, as described. The bill would, as part of the streamlined project delivery process, set forth timelines and specifications for submitting and responding to various information and documents for the facility rearrangements, among other things. (Based on 06/30/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Transportation & Infrastructure SB 569 (Blakespear, D) Department of Transportation: homeless encampments.

Current Text: 04/21/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/24/2025 - July 7 hearing postponed by committee.

Location: 06/16/2025 - Assembly Transportation
Summary: Current law authorizes the Department of Transportation to establish maintenance programs related to highway cleanup, as specified. This bill would require the department to establish a dedicated liaison to, among other things, facilitate communication with local governments and relevant state agencies with regard to addressing homeless encampments within the state highway system and to oversee the development and implementation of delegated maintenance agreements between local agencies and the department in which both work together to reduce and remove homeless encampments within the department’s jurisdiction. The bill would authorize the department to grant a single general entry permit for the duration of a delegated maintenance agreement to conduct activities authorized by the bill. The bill would require the department to submit an annual report to the Legislature summarizing specified information and recommendations regarding homeless encampments. (Based on 04/21/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
AB 532 (Ransom, D) Water rate assistance program.
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Current Text: 06/19/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Senate Local Government
Summary: Current federal law, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, among other things, requires the federal Department of Health and Human Services to carry out a Low-Income Household Drinking Water and Wastewater Emergency Assistance Program, which is also known as the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program, for making grants to states and Indian tribes to assist low-income households that pay a high proportion of household income for drinking water and wastewater services, as provided. Current law requires the Department of Community Services and Development to administer the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program in this state, and to receive and expend moneys appropriated and allocated to the state for purposes of that program, pursuant to the above-described federal law. The Low Income Household Water Assistance Program was only operative until March 31, 2024. This bill would repeal the abovedescribed requirements related to the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program. (Based on 06/19/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources AB 1207 (Irwin, D) Climate change: market-based compliance mechanism: price ceiling.

Current Text: 03/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/24/2025 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

Location: 06/04/2025 - Senate Environmental Quality
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, until January 1, 2031, authorizes the State Air Resources Board to adopt a regulation establishing a system of market-based declining aggregate emissions limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gases (market-based compliance mechanism) that meets certain requirements. Current law requires the state board, in adopting the regulation to, among other things, establish a price ceiling for emission allowances sold by the state board.

Current law requires the state board, in establishing the price ceiling, to consider specified factors, including the full social cost associated with emitting a metric ton of greenhouse gases. This bill would require the state board to instead consider the full social cost associated with emitting a metric ton of greenhouse gases, as determined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in November 2023. (Based on 03/17/2025 text)
Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SB 454 (McNerney, D) State Water Resources Control Board: PFAS Mitigation Program.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - July 2 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: 07/02/2025 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing law designates the State Water Resources Control Board as the agency responsible for administering specific programs related to drinking water, including, among others, the California Safe Drinking Water Act and the Emerging Contaminants for Small or Disadvantaged Communities Funding Program. This bill, which would become operative upon an appropriation by the Legislature, would enact a 91 46
PFAS mitigation program. As part of that program, the bill would create the PFAS Mitigation Fund in the State Treasury and would authorize certain moneys in the fund to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified purposes. The bill would authorize the state board to seek out and deposit nonstate, federal, and private funds, require those funds to be deposited into the PFAS Mitigation Fund, and continuously appropriate the nonstate, federal, and private funds in the fund to the state board for specified purposes. The bill would authorize the state board to establish accounts within the PFAS Mitigation Fund. The bill would authorize the state board to expend moneys from the fund in the form of a grant, loan, or contract, or to provide assistance services to water suppliers and sewer system providers, as those terms are defined, for multiple purposes, including, among other things, to cover or reduce the costs for water suppliers associated with treating drinking water to meet the applicable state and federal maximum perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contaminant levels. The bill would require a water supplier or sewer system provider to include a clear and definite purpose for how the funds will be used to provide public benefits to their community related to safe drinking water, recycled water, or treated wastewater in order to be eligible to receive funds. The bill would require the state board to adopt guidelines to implement these provisions, as provided. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 466 (Caballero, D) Drinking water: hexavalent chromium: civil liability: exemption.

Current Text: 06/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/02/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1). Rereferred to Com. on JUD.

Location: 07/01/2025 - Assembly Judiciary
Summary: Would prohibit a public water system that meets the total chromium maximum containment level (MCL) enforceable standard for drinking water in California from being held liable in any civil action brought by an individual or entity that is not a governmental agency related to hexavalent chromium in drinking water while implementing and in compliance with a state board-approved hexavalent chromium MCL compliance plan, or during the period between when it has submitted a hexavalent chromium MCL compliance plan for approval to the state board and action on the proposed compliance plan by the state board is pending, except as specified. (Based on 06/24/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SB 682 (Allen, D) Environmental health: product safety: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/23/2025 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on E.S & T.M.

Location: 06/09/2025 - Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Summary: Current law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control, on or before January 1, 2029, to adopt regulations to enforce specified covered perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) restrictions, which include prohibitions on the distribution, sale, or offering for sale of certain products that contain specified levels of PFAS. Current law requires the department, on and after July 1, 2030, to enforce and ensure compliance with those provisions and regulations, as provided. Current law requires manufacturers of these products, on or before July 1, 2029, to register with the department, to pay a 92 47
registration fee to the department, and to provide a statement of compliance certifying compliance with the applicable prohibitions on the use of PFAS to the department, as specified. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2028, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale a cleaning product, cookware, dental floss, juvenile product, food packaging, or ski wax, as provided, that contains intentionally added PFAS, as defined, except for previously used products and as otherwise preempted by federal law. (Based on 06/23/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SB 840 (Limón, D) Greenhouse gases: report.

Current Text: 03/26/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/09/2025 - Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

Location: 06/09/2025 - Assembly Natural Resources
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board, in adopting rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 levels no later than December 31, 2030. The act requires the Legislative Analyst’s Office, until January 1, 2030, to annually submit to the Legislature a report on the economic impacts and benefits of those greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. The act, until January 1, 2031, establishes the Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee and requires the committee to annually report to the state board and the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies on the environmental and economic performance of the regulations establishing the market-based compliance mechanism and other relevant climate change policies. This bill would extend indefinitely the requirement for the Legislative Analyst’s Office to annually submit to the Legislature the report on the economic impacts and benefits of those greenhouse gas emissions targets. The bill would require the committee, at a public hearing, to review the annual report by the Legislative Analyst’s Office. (Based on 03/26/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
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POSITION LETTERS (Attachment 3)
As of July 15, 2025
Attachment 3 includes City of Chino position letters on legislation and regulations submitted since the prior report. The attached letter(s) were submitted on behalf of the City during this reporting period.
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98 EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN C. COMSTOCK
Mayor CHRISTOPHER FLORES

As a municipality responsible for potable water, stormwater, and transportation infrastructure across 30 square miles, the City of Chino has significant operational and permitting responsibilities that would be directly and negatively affected by the changes proposed in SB 445.

While we support efforts to streamline the delivery of sustainable transportation projects, SB 445 imposes rigid procedural requirements on local agencies and utilities without providing adequate protections for critical infrastructure oversight, cost accountability, or public safety.

One major concern is the bill’s provision allowing the Secretary of Transportation to waive, i.e., override, locally adopted design and permitting standards when they are deemed to conflict with the delivery of transportation projects. This would bypass local review, even in cases where public safety or system reliability may be at risk.

The bill also establishes a binding dispute resolution process that provides transportation agencies with the power to challenge permit denials or delays. While municipalities and utilities may participate in the process, they have no say in selecting mediators or arbitrators, and the outcomes are not subject to appeal. This reduces an agency’s ability to defend legitimate technical, operational, or public safety concerns.

In addition, SB 445 requires all third parties, including cities, to publicly post every permit requirement and related “objective” standard by July 1, 2026. Any unpublished or “subjective” standard may not be enforced. While greater clarity is welcome, the bill will inadvertently invalidate essential practices that rely on case-by-case engineering judgment or site-specific review.

Furthermore, the bill also places financial risk on local agencies by requiring them to pay for facility upgrades (“betterments”) that go beyond what is strictly needed for the project. Even when upgrades 99 Hon. Lori Wilson
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are driven by project design changes, the city may be left with the cost unless it objects early in the process.

The City of Chino supports efficient project delivery; however, SB 445, as amended, would weaken local authority, unnecessarily shift costs to cities and utilities, and limit our ability to protect essential and critical infrastructure. For these reasons, we respectfully urge the Committee to oppose this measure in its current form. If you have any questions regarding this correspondence, please contact Deputy City Manager Vivian Castro at [email protected] or (909) 334-3307.

Sincerely,
Linda Reich
City Manager
cc: The Honorable Michelle Rodriguez
The Honorable Phillip Chen
Hye Jin Lee, Director of Public Works
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EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN C. COMSTOCK
Mayor CHRISTOPHER FLORES

MARC LUCIO
Council Members
CURTIS BURTON DR. LINDA REICH
Mayor Pro Tem City Manager
CITY of CHINO
13220 Central Avenue, Chino, California 91710
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 667, Chino, California 91708-0667 (909) 334-3250 • (909) 334-3720 Fax
Web Site: www.cityofchino.org
June 13, 2025
The Honorable Norma Torres
2227 Rayburn House Office Building
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Via email: [email protected] and [email protected] RE: Bigger Trucks: Bad for America’s Local Communities
Dear Congresswoman Torres,
The City of Chino’s transportation infrastructure is a key part of our community’s economic vitality and quality of life. For this reason, we ask that you oppose any proposals in Congress to allow any increase in truck length or weight. Longer double-trailer trucks or heavier single-trailer trucks would only make the current situation worse. Allowing heavier and longer trucks will most certainly set us back in our effortsto improve the condition and safety of our transportation infrastructure, especially in our City and region, which have a heavy concentration of logistics businesses and a large volume of trucks.

Much of our transportation infrastructure that connects people to jobs, schools, and leisure is in disrepair, in part because local and rural roads and bridges are older and not built to the same standards as interstates.

Because of underfunded budgets, many cities cannot keep up with maintenance schedules and replacement costs. The impacts of longer or heavier tractor-trailers would only worsen these problems. Millions of miles of truck traffic operate on local roads and bridges across the country, and any bigger trucks allowed on our interstates would mean additional trucks that ultimately find their way onto our local infrastructure.

Longer and heavier trucks would cause significantly more damage to our transportation infrastructure, costing us billions of dollars that local government budgets simply cannot afford, compromising the very routes that American motorists use every day. We ask that you oppose any legislation that would allow any increase in truck length or weight. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Deputy City Manager Vivian Castro at [email protected] or 909-334-3307.

Sincerely,
Linda Reich
City Manager
cc: Public Works Director Hye Jin Lee
Transportation Engineer Dennis Ralls
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MEMORANDUM

CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: JULY 15, 2025
TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK

SUBJECT
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Citywide Digital Signature Policy Update.
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RECOMMENDATION
Adopt Resolution No. 2025-046 updating the Citywide Digital Signature Policy to align with updated state regulations.
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FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact associated with this action.

CITY OF CHINO MISSION / VISION / VALUES / STRATEGIC ISSUES The recommendation detailed above further the City’s values and strategic issues that serve as key pillars on which identified priorities, goals, and action plans are built, by fostering:
 Superior Customer Service
 Effective Technology
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TITLE: CITYWIDE DIGITAL SIGNATURE POLICY UPDATE.

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BACKGROUND
In 2022, the City implemented a Citywide Digital Signature Policy as part of its ongoing efforts to boost efficiency. The City of Chino had consistently looked for ways to streamline operations and enhance public service. A significant part of daily activities involved managing contracts.

Each fiscal year, the City finalized over 250 new agreements to support partnerships with various organizations, including for-profit, non-profit, and government entities, all focused on community benefit. While these collaborations were valuable, the existing methods for securing signatures and maintaining these documents, in line with our records management guidelines, demanded considerable time.

The City's contract processing was largely a manual system. Departments manually collected original signatures, then physically delivered contracts to the Finance, Risk Management, and Administration Departments for review, scanning, and processing. This hands-on approach had created a particularly heavy workload and consumed much time, especially at the beginning of new fiscal years when numerous new agreements, along with amendments and extensions to existing agreements, required attention.

ISSUES/ANALYSIS
The City's current digital signature practices require an update due to legislative changes within the California Government Code. Emergency regulations removed the requirement that the Secretary of State maintain a list of certificate authorities authorized to issue certificates for digitally signed communications with public entities in California. The Secretary of State no longer maintains or will make available the “Approved List of Digital Signature Certificate Authorities”. Consequently, the City of Chino’s established Citywide Digital Signature Policy no longer aligns with these updated state regulations.

To ensure continued legal compliance with Government Code Section 16.5 and to maintain the integrity and efficiency of the City's digital signing processes, staff recommend that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 2025-046, which approves the updated Citywide Digital Signature Policy. This revised policy aims to incorporate the necessary adjustments to reflect the current legal framework and ensure the City's digital signature procedures remain valid and effective.

Attachments: Resolution No. 2025-046
Updated Citywide Digital Signature Policy
California Government Code Section 16.5
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RESOLUTION NO. 2025-046

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

CHINO, CALIFORNIA, UPDATING THE DIGITAL SIGNATURE

POLICY TO ELECTRONICALLY SIGN AGREEMENTS AND

LEGISLATIVE DOCUMENTS AS SPECIFIED
WHEREAS, contracting with for-profit, non-profit, and government entities to provide services is a major aspect to the City’s day-to-day operations; and WHEREAS, while the benefits of collaborating with diverse stakeholders and partners is certainly evident, there are operational costs to gather, sign, and process all City contracts or legislative documents that come through the City; and
WHEREAS, California Government Code Section 16.5 allows cities to use “digital signatures”, as that term is defined, to execute various transactions; and WHEREAS, to help streamline the City’s contract and/or document processing procedures, it is evident that the City may utilize a digital signature process to execute and process documents in a paperless format; and
WHEREAS, while the benefits of creating operational efficiencies are certain, it is necessary to establish the parameters in which a digital signature may be used; and WHEREAS, to establish these clear standards and parameters, it is necessary to update and adopt a Digital Signature Policy.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHINO DOES HEREBY RESOLVE, DETERMINE, AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. The foregoing recitals are true and accurate.

SECTION 2. That the City Council does adopt the Updated Citywide Digital Signature Policy attached hereto as Exhibit “A”.

SECTION 3. Resolution No. 2022-020 is hereby rescinded.

SECTION 4. That the City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution.

PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 15th day of July 2025.

By:

EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR
ATTEST:

NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO ) ss.

CITY OF CHINO )
I, NATALIE GONZAGA, City Clerk of the City of Chino, hereby certify that Resolution No. 2025-046 is a full, true and correct copy, and was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Chino on July 15, 2025, by the following vote:

AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:

NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:

ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:

NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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Administrative Policy
Digital Signature Policy
I. Purpose Statement and Requirements:

To improve the City of Chino's administrative efficiencies, City staff and elected officials may utilize digital signatures, as that term is defined in California Government Code Section 16.5, to execute various transactions. As an overview, the State of California recognizes digital signatures as an electronic identifier that carries the same force and effect as a manual signature. To effectively process City transactions, staff may utilize digital signatures to execute agreements, contracts, and legislative documents as more specifically described under Subsection C of Section II. This framework supports expedited workflows while maintaining legal compliance and security standards for official City Business. The digital signature provider must be a current and recognized certification authority with the California Secretary of State's Office. A list of current "authorized certificate authorities" can be found at:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/regulations/current-regulations/technology/digital- signatures/approved-certification-authorities/.

If the digital signature provider is not a current and authorized certificate authority, then the signature created through the provider's product will not be recognized with the same force and effect as a manual signature. However, should the California Secretary of State, under any circumstances, waive the requirement to use vendors listed as "authorized certificate authorities," then the procedures and standards set out by the California Secretary of State under those unique circumstances shall replace the aforementioned requirements and remain in effect until the previous procedures/standards have been restored by the California Secretary of State. (Reference California Government Code Section 16.5 - Note: If any phrase or portion of this policy is held invalid or unconstitutional by any courts of competent jurisdiction, such determination shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this policy.) II. Policy Implementation, Use, and Document Storage:

The conditions under which the City of Chino will accept digital signatures are hereby established by this administrative policy and include:

A. Digital Signature Appearance:

Elected Officials, the City Manager, Department Heads, and designated staff shall submit to the City Clerk's Office an electronic signature in the same likeness as their original handwritten signature to be uploaded into the approved digital signature software.
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B.Training and Use:

The City Clerk's Office and the Information Technology division will oversee the implementation, training, and use of the approved digital signature software.

C. Document that may be executed using a Digital Signature:
 Contracts and Agreements
 Official City Council Rresolutions
 Official City Council oOrdinances
 Official City Council mMinutes
 Internal Administration Documents and memorandums
D. City Acceptance and Use of Digital Signatures: • City staff may utilize digital signatures for any contract or agreement. • The City will accept digital signatures as legally binding provided that: 1) the Signatures are used to execute contract agreements, or legislative document that are further described in Subsection and ; 2) the requirement of California Government Code Section 16.5 are met· and 3) the digital signature is obtained through the accept d software identified by the City or listed under the California Secretary of State list of current' authorized certificate authorities.. • The City reserves the right to conduct a transaction on pape r or through a nondigital signature process and to require other parties to an agreement to do the same.

Likewise, the City may execute transactions with both non-digital and digital signatures to execute the transaction in counterpart. • The City Manager or their designee shall determine acceptable technologies and vendors consistent with state law and industry best practices to ensure the integrity and security of the data and digital signature.

E.Storage and Archiving of Electronically Signed Document:

Storage of electronic records and fully executed electronically signed documents shall be 107
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stored on the City document management system and retained according to the City of Chino· Records Re tention Schedule.

III. Policy Changes and Amendments:

This Policy may be amended or modified by the City Clerk with review by the City Attorney and approved by the City Manager from time to time as necessary to account for changes in legal, regulatory or operational requirements. 108

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MEMORANDUM

CITY OF CHINO

COMMUNITY SERVICES, PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: JULY 15, 2025
TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: SILVIA AVALOS, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY SERVICES, PARKS &

RECREATION

SUBJECT
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Contract Approval - Human Services Programs for residents of Chino Hills. ..end

RECOMMENDATION
1) Approve a contract with the City of Chino Hills in the amount of $270,029 for the provision of Human Services programs for residents of Chino Hills for FY 2025-26, 2) decrease the Community Services, Parks & Recreation revenue budget by $49,029; and 3) authorize the City Manager to execute all necessary documents on behalf of the City. ..body

FISCAL IMPACT
Decrease the Community Services, Parks & Recreation revenue budget by $49,0,029, to accurately reflect the revenue that the City will receive from the contract with the City of Chino Hills.

CITY OF CHINO MISSION / VISION / VALUES / STRATEGIC ISSUES The recommendation detailed above further the City’s values and strategic issues that serve as key pillars on which identified priorities, goals, and action plans are built, by fostering:
 Superior Customer Service
 Public Service Excellence through Internal and External Partnerships Revenue: 3308120-58040 Expenditure:

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CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: JULY 15, 2025
TITLE: CONTRACT APPROVAL - HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS FOR RESIDENTS OF CHINO HILLS.

PAGE: 2

BACKGROUND
The City of Chino Community Services, Parks & Recreation Department has a long-standing history of providing Human Services programs to all students in the Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD). The CVUSD is unable to employ the expert staff to facilitate these programs; therefore, contracts with the City of Chino (Chino) to offer these services.

These programs are funded by grants the CVUSD receives and some of the administrative costs are not reimbursable. Due to the positive impacts of these programs, CVUSD and Chino contribute to the ongoing program costs not covered by the grants.

The City of Chino Hills (Chino Hills) also sees the benefits of these programs and reimburses Chino for the direct and indirect costs associated with the services provided to Chino Hills’ residents. Chino Hills has received these services for more than 20 years.

ISSUES/ANALYSIS
This agreement requires Chino Hills to reimburse Chino for programs provided to Chino Hills’ residents. The estimated costs for these services in FY 2025-26 are $270,029. This will require a $49,029 decrease to the Community Services, Parks & Recreation revenue budget for FY 2025-26. The Human Services programs provided for Chino Hills residents in the 2025-2026 school year are:
 HOPE Family Resource Centers
 McKinney-Vento CARE (Credit Academic Recovery Education) Program  Teen Counseling
 Youth Counseling
The Chino Hills City Council approved this agreement at its July 8, 2025, meeting.

Attachments: Chino Hills Agreement
A - City of Chino Hills Salaries Worksheet - (FY 2025-26) B - City of Chino Hills Programs Worksheet - (FY 2025-26) 111

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CHINO CONTRACT NO.: ______________
APPROVED: ______________

AGREEMENT

CITY OF CHINO AND CITY OF CHINO HILLS

HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS
FY 2025-2026
This agreement, entered into this 1
st day of July 2025, by and between the City of Chino, a municipal corporation, herein referred to as “Chino” and the City of Chino Hills, a municipal corporation, herein referred to as “Chino Hills” includes the terms and conditions regarding the Human Services Programs provided to the Chino Valley Unified School District (District).

Whereas, Chino and Chino Hills have joined together to deliver a comprehensive Human Services Program, to the areas commonly referred to as the Chino Valley, through the Chino Valley Unified School District. The Human Services Program provides youth and adults with effective and positive programs in which to participate.

Whereas, services provided in the Human Services Program include individual and family counseling which address delinquency diversion, abuse, low mood, anxiety, family relations, and other social adjustment issues. Services are expected to be provided in-person at the school sites unless schools return to Distance Learning; in which case, services will be provided through telehealth.

I. HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS
The City of Chino, Human Services, shall provide and administer the following programs to the City of Chino Hills:

A. HOPE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS
The HOPE Family Resource Centers are school-based service sites dedicated to preserving and strengthening local families in need of support. Five resource centers and two satellite sites, strategically located and accessible from all areas of the District, will house a bilingual Case Manager to work closely with school administration and District staff to identify students and families in need of assistance. Case Managers provide services for all schools located in the City of Chino Hills. The Case Manager can assist students and families with Medi-Cal/CalFresh/CalWORKs applications, food, clothing, childcare/preschool information, counseling, parenting support, emergency housing, tutoring information, and more. Case Management services will be provided in-person unless schools return to Distance Learning, in which services will be provided via telehealth and/or drive-through pick-up for all necessary emergency items like food, hygiene, and school supplies. In addition, a HOPE Counselor provides counseling services to students referred through the HOPE Family Resource Centers. Services will be provided at the students’ respective school sites, at the agency, or by telehealth, if 112

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special circumstances require it. Counselor will also provide referrals for families that have special needs and need a higher level of service.

B. MCKINNEY-VENTO CASE MANAGEMENT AND COUNSELING PROGRAM The McKinney-Vento Case Management program serves homeless students, unaccompanied youth, and families by ensuring school stability and providing support services for academic success. Students and families temporarily sharing housing due to economic hardship, the loss of their own housing, living in a motel, hotel, trailer park, emergency or transitional shelter, campground, or vehicle may be eligible to certain educational rights and services under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.

Case Managers are available to assist with resources and referrals for housing, emergency and transitional shelters, counseling, health services, food, clothing, school supplies, hygiene items, and more. Case Managers will also monitor student's academic progress and attendance, and will provide additional supportive services as needed. In addition, a CARE Counselor provides counseling services to students and/or family referred through the Mc-Kinney Vento Children’s Academic Recovery Education (CARE) program.

Services will be provided at the students’ respective school sites, at the agency, or by telehealth, if special circumstances require it. Counselors will also provide referrals for families that have special needs and need a higher level of service.

C. TEEN COUNSELING
The Teen Counseling program provides counseling services to middle and high school students. This program helps teens deal with school, family, academic behavioral, peer adjustment issues, such as bullying and other social issues. This program is designed to provide short-term counseling, guidance with behavioral issues, and positive dialogue opportunities. Administrator evaluations are requested.

D. YOUTH COUNSELING
The Youth Counseling program provides assistance to elementary school-aged children who are in need of guidance with behavioral issues, self-esteem, bullying, and other social issues. Administrator evaluations will be conducted at the end of each school year to gauge program success and to make program adjustments for the following year.

II. PROGRESS REPORTS
Participation reports outlining programming activity shall be forwarded to the City of Chino Hills semi-annually. The first report shall summarize program activity from July 1, through December 31, 2025, and the second shall provide information from January 1, through June 30, 2026. These reports shall be delivered to the City of Chino Hills within 30 days after the end of the reporting period. Each set of reports shall include:

A. INFORMATIONAL ITEMS: Items such as curriculum changes and brochures.

B. STATISTICS: Statistical data indicating units of services provided to the residents of Chino Hills.

C. PROGRAM EVALUATIONS: A narrative will summarize, analyze, and constructively critique the programs. It will provide participant breakdowns by schools and the results of the pre- and post-tests (where applicable). Program summary will be completed with the second half report.
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III. BILLINGS AND PAYMENTS
A. BILLINGS
Chino shall provide semi-annual billing statements to Chino Hills.

These statements shall be included with the semi-annual progress report. Billing invoices shall include cost recovery for program administration and other related costs, such as supplies. Program costs shall be reimbursed at a rate based on the "actual" percentage of Chino Hills students served for each program. The attached contract total reflects an estimated contract rate based on historical participation of 40%. In addition to program cost, 22% for General Overhead shall be due.

General Overhead shall include 22% of Community Services, Parks & Recreation Department overhead. Community Services, Parks & Recreations Department overhead shall include expenses charged and distributed to the Human Services Program budget.

B. PAYMENTS
Chino Hills shall remit payment to Chino within 30 days of receipt of billing statement. Payment shall be made payable to "City of Chino" and shall be sent to:

City of Chino
Community Services, Parks & Recreation Department
Attn: Janelle Bower
13220 Central Avenue
Chino, CA 91710
IV. FUNDING AND MID-YEAR ADJUSTMENTS
The services to be provided in this Agreement are conditional upon funding availability and may immediately terminate should the funding be eliminated. In the event of unpredicted changes (such as, funding decreases or increases), a mid-year adjustment to this agreement may be required.

Necessary adjustments shall be discussed by both parties, mutually agreed upon, and formalized through an amendment to this Agreement.

Any new programs received and/or developed mid-year shall be presented to Chino Hills for an opportunity to participate. Should additional services or programs be requested, the responsibilities and costs of such shall also be formalized through an amendment to this Agreement.

V. TERM, RENEWAL, AND TERMINATION
A. TERM AND RENEWAL
This Agreement shall, unless sooner terminated as hereinafter provided, remain in force for a period of twelve months commencing July 1, 2025, and terminating on June 30, 2026. Not earlier than one hundred-twenty (120) days, and not later than sixty (60) days, prior to the end of the term hereof, the parties agree to meet and confer to negotiate continuing this Agreement for the next succeeding year and the terms thereof; provided that neither party shall be required to continue this agreement beyond the original term, that neither party shall be required to negotiate for more than (60) days and that neither party shall be prevented from exercising any rights retained under this Agreement solely because of such negotiations.

B. TERMINATION
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At any time during the term hereof, the obligations of the parties hereunder may be terminated by either party with or without cause effective sixty (60) days after written notice to the other party of its election to so terminate.

VI. NOTICE
All notices under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be delivered by courier service or by certified or registered mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, of the parties. Any written notice to any of the parties required or permitted hereunder shall be deemed to have been duly given on the date of service if served personally or if served by facsimile transmission (with confirmation of receipt), or seventy-two (72) hours after the mailing. Rejection or other refusal to accept or the inability to deliver because of changed address of which no notice was given as provided hereunder shall be deemed to be receipt of the notice, demand or request sent. Notices of the parties shall be addressed as follows:

To CHINO HILLS: City Clerk
City of Chino Hills
14000 City Center Drive
Chino Hills, CA 91709
To CHINO: Monica Tiznado
City of Chino
13201 Central Avenue
Chino, CA 91710
Each party shall provide the other party with telephone and written notice of any change in address as soon as practicable.

VII. INDEMNITY/INSURANCE
Neither Chino nor any officer or employee of Chino shall be responsible for any damage or liability occurring by reason of any acts or omissions on the part of Chino Hills under or in connection with any work, authority or jurisdiction delegated to or determined to be the responsibility of Chino Hills under this Agreement. It is also understood and agreed that, pursuant to Government Code, Section 895.4, Chino Hills shall fully indemnify, defend, and hold Chino harmless from any liability imposed for injury (as defined by Government Code Section 810.8) occurring by reason of any acts or omissions on the part of Chino Hills under or in connection with any work, authority or jurisdiction delegated to or determined to be the responsibility of Chino Hills under this Agreement.

Neither Chino Hills nor any officer or employee of Chino Hills shall be responsible for any damage or liability occurring by reason of any acts or omissions on the part of Chino under or in connection with any work, authority or jurisdiction delegated to or determined to be the responsibility of Chino under this Agreement. It is also understood and agreed that, pursuant to Government Code, Section 895.4, Chino shall fully indemnify, defend, and hold Chino Hills harmless from any liability imposed for injury (as defined by Government Code Section 810.8) occurring by reason of any acts or omissions on the part of Chino under or in connection with any work, authority or jurisdiction delegated to or determined to be the responsibility of Chino under this Agreement.

Each party shall comply with all federal, state, and local laws and ordinances applicable to such work and shall provide general liability insurance, $1 million single limits or if self-insured, each 115

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party will provide proof of self-insurance to the other party.

VIII. GOVERNING LAW
This Agreement shall be governed by, construed in accordance with, and interpreted under the laws of the State of California and shall be deemed to have been entered into in Chino, California, for purposes of venue no matter where actually executed.

IX. SEVERABILITY
If any provision of this Agreement shall be determined to be contrary to law or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall, at the option of the party who would have been benefited by such unenforceable provision, be severable and enforceable in accordance with their terms.

X. ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This Agreement, the Schedules attached hereto, and any other document delivered pursuant hereto, constitute the entire agreement of the parties. No changes, modifications, or additions to the Agreement shall be valid unless the same shall be in writing, signed by all parties hereto, and made in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.

XI. AMENDMENTS
This Agreement may be amended only in writing signed by all parties hereto.

XII. ATTORNEY'S FEES
The parties each agree that, in the event of any breach of this Agreement, the party aggrieved shall be entitled to recover from the party who breaches, in addition to any other relief provided by law, such costs and expenses as may be incurred by said party, including court costs, attorney's fees, and other costs and expenses, taxable or otherwise, reasonably necessary in preparing the defense of, defending against, or seeking or obtaining an abatement of, or an injunction against, such action or proceeding, or in enforcing this Agreement, or in establishing or maintaining the applicability of, or the validity of, this Agreement, or any provision thereof, and in the prosecuting any counterclaim or cross-complaint based thereon.

XIII. COUNTERPARTS
This Agreement may be executed in multiple identical counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together will constitute one and the same instrument, but the parties agree that the agreement on file in the Office of Chino's City Clerk is the version of the Agreement that shall take precedent should any differences exist among counterparts of the document. 116

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executive this Agreement as of the date first written above.

CITY OF CHINO CITY OF CHINO HILLS
APPROVED BY: APPROVED BY:

Linda Reich, City Manager Art Bennett, Mayor
ATTEST: ATTEST:

Natalie Gonzaga, City Clerk Cheryl Balz, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Silvia Avalos, Director of Community Services, Mark D. Hensley, City Attorney Parks & Recreation
APPROVED AS TO FORM:

ALESHIRE & WYNDER, LLP
Fred Galante, City Attorney
Attachments:

A – City of Chino Hills Salaries Worksheet - (FY 2025-26) B – City of Chino Hills Programs Worksheet - (FY 2025-26) 117
Hope Family Teen Youth McKinney- TOTAL
Full Time Salaries Resource Center Counseling Counseling Vento Supervisor 35.0% 5.0% 5.0% 5.0% 50.0%
$ 37,926.00 $ 5,418.00 $ 5,418.00 $ 5,418.00 $ 54,180.00 Clinical Program Manager 5.0% 5.0% 5.0% 5.0% 20.0%
$ 7,545.00 $ 7,545.00 $ 7,545.00 $ 7,545.00 $ 30,180.00 100.0% 25% 25% 15% 165.0%
Coordinator $ 91,368.00 $ 21,063.00 $ 21,063.00 $ 12,637.80 $ 146,131.80 Management Aide (20%) $ 4,242.00 $ 4,242.00 $ 4,242.00 $ 4,242.00 $ 16,968.00 Subtotal $ 141,081.00 $ 38,268.00 $ 38,268.00 $ 29,842.80 $ 247,459.80 Benefits (45%) $ 63,486.45 $ 17,220.60 $ 17,220.60 $ 13,429.26 $ 111,356.91 TOTAL $ 204,567.45 $ 55,488.60 $ 55,488.60 $ 43,272.06 $ 358,816.71 Part Time Salaries
Direct Program Staff $ 202,216.00 $ 161,694.00 $ 193,901.22 $ 216,783.55 $ 774,594.77 Benefit (22%) $ 44,487.52 $ 35,572.68 $ 42,658.27 $ 47,692.38 $ 170,410.85 TOTALS: $ 246,703.52 $ 197,266.68 $ 236,559.49 $ 264,475.93 $ 945,005.62 Central Services (22%) $ 870.71 $ 870.71 $ 870.71 $ 870.71 $ 3,482.82 Insurance Allocated (22%) $ 1,430.33 $ 1,430.33 $ 1,430.33 $ 1,430.33 $ 5,721.32 Building Allocated (22%) $ 10,160.81 $ 10,160.81 $ 10,160.81 $ 10,160.81 $ 40,643.24 Operations (100%) $ 13,500.00 $ 800.00 $ 1,200.00 $ - $ 15,500.00 Subtotal $ 25,961.85 $ 13,261.85 $ 13,661.85 $ 12,461.85 $ 65,347.38 TOTALS: $ 477,232.82 $ 266,017.13 $ 305,709.93 $ 320,209.84 $ 1,369,169.71

ATTACHMENT A

CITY OF CHINO HILLS

SALARIES WORKSHEET
FY 2025-26
6/23/2025 ATTACHMENT A
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Hope Family Teen Youth McKinneyResource Center Counseling Counseling Vento Full Time Salaries $ 141,081.00 $ 38,268.00 $ 38,268.00 $ 29,842.80 $ 247,459.80 Part Time Salaries $ 202,216.00 $ 161,694.00 $ 193,901.22 $ 216,783.55 $ 774,594.77 Benefits $ 107,973.97 $ 52,793.28 $ 59,878.87 $ 61,121.64 $ 281,767.76 Central Services $ 870.71 $ 870.71 $ 870.71 $ 870.71 $ 3,482.82 Insurance Allocated $ 1,430.33 $ 1,430.33 $ 1,430.33 $ 1,430.33 $ 5,721.32 Building Allocated $ 10,160.81 $ 10,160.81 $ 10,160.81 $ 10,160.81 $ 40,643.24 Operations $ 13,500.00 $ 800.00 $ 1,200.00 $ - $ 15,500.00 Sub Total Cost $ 477,232.82 $ 266,017.13 $ 305,709.93 $ 320,209.84 $ 1,369,169.71 Revenue $ 375,000.00 $ 52,304.00 $ 51,793.00 $ 215,000.00 $ 694,097.00 Total Net $ 102,232.82 $ 213,713.13 $ 253,916.93 $ 105,209.84 $ 675,072.71 Cost to Chino Hills
Based on 40% Actuals $ 40,893.13 $ 85,485.25 $ 101,566.77 $ 42,083.93 $ 270,029.08 Total

ATTACHMENT B

CITY OF CHINO HILLS

PROGRAMS WORKSHEET
FY 2025-26
6/23/2025 ATTACHMENT B
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MEMORANDUM

CITY OF CHINO

COMMUNITY SERVICES, PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: JULY 15, 2025
TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: SILVIA AVALOS, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY SERVICES, PARKS &

RECREATION

SUBJECT
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RECOMMENDATION
1) Approve the Master Contracts with the Chino Valley Unified School District for the amounts of $375,000 for HOPE Program (Exhibit 1); $215,000 for CARE Program (Exhibit 2); $104,097 for LCAP School-Based Counseling/Health Services (Exhibit 3); $1,444,903.15 for ASES After School Program (Exhibit 4); and $147,000 for TYKES (Exhibit 5) for the provision of community services programs for FY 2025-26; 2) increase the revenue budget of the Community Services, Parks & Recreation Fund by $11,460; and 3) authorize the City Manager to execute all necessary documents on behalf of the City.
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FISCAL IMPACT
Requires an increase of $11,460 to the revenue budget of the Community Services, Parks & Recreation Fund.

CITY OF CHINO MISSION / VISION / VALUES / STRATEGIC ISSUES The recommendation detailed above further the City’s values and strategic issues that serve as key pillars on which identified priorities, goals, and action plans are built, by fostering:
 Superior Customer Service
 Public Service Excellence through Internal and External Partnerships Revenue: 33081206-59500 ($5,730); 33081207-59500
($5,760)
Expenditure:

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TITLE: MASTER CONTRACTS - CHINO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT.

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BACKGROUND
For several years, the City of Chino has partnered with the Chino Valley Unified School District (District). Through this partnership, the City and District work together to provide a variety of programs and services benefiting youth in the community. These programs include counseling, case management, resource centers, after school programs, and programs for parents of preschool children.

ISSUES/ANALYSIS
In order to facilitate efficient coordination and implementation of services, the District enters into a contract with the City to provide the services outlined in the Master Contracts (Exhibits 1-6).

Once services are rendered, the City bills the District and the District reimburses the City for those services.

The Master Contracts were approved at the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education meetings on May 15 and June 5, 2025. Counseling services for Legacy Academy was included in the FY 2025-26 budget. The District included a Master Contract providing counseling services at Legacy Academy. Revenue was not included in the budget for the counseling services at Legacy Academy, and this will require an increase of $11,460 to the Community Services, Parks & Recreation Fund revenue budget.

Attachment: Master Contracts - Exhibits 1-5
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CHINO VALLEY

UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
13461 Ramona Avenue, Chmo, CA 91710
(909) 628-1201
1 Name of Department/Site
Submitting Contract: Health Services/HOPE Program
Name of Contact Person: KATHY CASINO, DIRECTOR, PURCHASING

AGREEMENT FOR CONSULTANT SERVICES/MASTER CONTRACT
This Agreement Is made between the CHINO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, ("DISTRICT") and City of Chino ( HOPE Program) (“CONSULTANT") (RECITALS)
WHEREAS, CONSULTANT is especially skilled, trained, experienced, and competent to render the services and advice described in Section I hereof; and WHEREAS, DISTRICT requires the services described in Section 1 hereof and DISTRICT is unable to obtain them from existing personnel; and
NOW, THEREFORE, DISTRICT AND CONSULTANT mutually agree as follows:

1. Services to be Provided by CONSULTANT:
a. CONSULTANT will render the services to DISTRICT that are described as:

Case Management support services for District students and families. b. CONSULTANT will commence work under this Agreement on or about 7/1/2025 and will diligently prosecute the work thereafter. CONSULTANT will complete the work not later than 6/30/2026. Upon a showing of good and sufncient cause by CONSULTANT, DISTRICT may, in its sole discretion, grant such extension of time as it may deem advisable. However, DISTRICT shall not pay CONSULTANT any additional compensation if such an extension is granted, unless CONSULTANT performs additional services, the compensation for which shall be determined by the DISTRICT and CONSULTANT in writing.
c. CONSULTANT will perform said services in his or her own way and as an Independent contractor in the pursuit of his or her independent calling and not as an employee of DISTRICT. He or she shall be under the control of the DISTRICT as to the result to be accomplished and not as to the means or manner by which such result is to be accomplished.
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CONSULTANT'S Representations:

CONSULTANT represents that he or she has the skills, experience, and knowledge necessary to perform the services agreed to be performed under this Agreement; and CONSULTANT understands the DISTRICT has relied upon the representations of CONSULTANT that he or she has the skills, experience, and knowledge to perform the services required by this Agreement in a competent manner. CONSULTANT understands the scope of the services required to be performed under this Agreement. CONSULTANT warrants that he or she will faithfully and diligently perform the services hereunder.

CONSULTANT shall employ, as a minimum, generally accepted standards of practices employed by persons engaged in providing similar services in existence at the time of the performance of the obligations hereunder.
. Compensation to CONSULTANT:
a. Consultant will provide services for the amount of: $375,000.00 b. No additional compensation will be granted unless agreed to in writing by DISTRICT. c. Funding Source: LCAP
d. DISTRICT will not withhold Federal or State income tax deductions from payments made to CONSULTANT under this Agreement but will provide CONSULTANT with a statement of earnings at the conclusion of each calendar year.
e. For services rendered, the CONSULTANT must submit to the DISTRICT a detailed request for payment with an itemized invoice, describing services provide, with the signature of site principal or manager, noting work or service was completed. . Duration of Agreement:

The term of this Agreement shall commence on 7/1/2025 and terminate on 6/30/2026.

Subject to terms and conditions stated in #10.
. DISTRICT to Provide Information:

DISTRICT will prepare and furnish to CONSULTANT upon his or her request such information as is reasonably necessary to the performance of CONSULTANT’S work under this Agreement.
. Ownership of Materials:

Any and all documents, or materials prepared or caused to be prepared by CONSULTANT pursuant to this Agreement shall be the joint property of the DISTRICT and CONSULTANT upon payment by the DISTRICT. All said documents and materials shall be delivered to and become the joint property of the DISTRICT and CONSULTANT. 123
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7. General Provisions:
a. CONSULTANT shall comply with all Federal, State and local laws and ordinances applicable to such work. CONSULTANT shall provide workers‘ compensation insurance or self-insure for his or her services. Evidence of insurance (General Liability, Professional Liability, Auto and Workers' Comp) shall be provided to DISTRICT upon execution of this Agreement. b. If CONSULTANT is an individual, for services rendered, he or she must submit to the DISTRICT a completed IRS W9 form that must include CONSULTANT’S signature, social security number or tax identification number; and state whether or not CONSULTANT is a retired member of the State Teachers Retirement System of the State of California. c. This Agreement may be amended by the mutual written consent of the parties.

8. Assignment:

This Agreement may not be assigned without the written consent of the DISTRICT.

9. Indemnification:

In contemplation of the provisions of Section 895.2 of the Government Code of the State of California imposing certain tort liability jointly upon public entities solely by reason of such entities being parties to an agreement as defined by Section 895 of said Code., each of the Parties hereto, pursuant to the authorization contained in Section 895.4 and 895.6 of said Code, will assume the full liability imposed upon it, or any of its omcers, agents, or employees, by law for injury caused by a negligent or wrongful act of omission occurring in the performance of this Agreement to the same extent that such liability would be imposed in the absence of Section 895.2 of said Code. To achieve the above-stated purpose, each Party indemnmes and hold harmless the other Party of any loss, cost, or expense that may be imposed upon such other Party solely by virtue of said Section 895.2. The parties agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless each other against any and all liability, expense and claims arising from their respective negligent or wrongful acts and omissions. The provisions of the Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

10.Termination:
a. If DISTRICT determines, in its sole discretion, that CONSULTANT’S services have been or become unsatisfactory, DISTRICT may terminate this Agreement and the CONSULTANT’S services hereunder. Further, DISTRICT may suspend the performance of the work under this Agreement for a fixed or indef‘lnite period. b. As an alternative to a unilateral termination under subsection (a) thereof, the DISTRICT may issue to CONSULTANT a written notice of any deficiency or delay in the performances or the services hereunder. In that event, CONSULTANT shall cure any such denciency within the period specifled in said notice. If CONSULTANT fails to cure the deflclency within the specified period, DISTRICT may terminate this Agreement. c. If the CONSULTANT terminates this Agreement for unsatisfactory performance, the DISTRICT shall only pay CONSULTANT for those services satisfactorily rendered through 3 124
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the termination date as determined by the DISTRICT, in its sole discretion. If the DISTRICT suspends the performance of CONSULTANT services under this Agreement, the DISTRICT shall only pay CONSULTANT for those services satisfactorily rendered through the suspension date by the CONSULTANT as determined by the DISTRICT, in its sole discretion.
d. Either party may terminate this Agreement by providing thirty (30) days written notice to the other party.

11. Counterparts:

This agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, and such counterparts shall constitute one and the same instrument.

12. Severability:

In the event that part of this Agreement shall be declared invalid or unenforceable by a valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect any of the remaining portion of this Agreement which are hereby declared as severable and shall be interpreted to carry out the intent of the parties hereunder unless the invalid provision is so material that its invalidity deprived either party of the basic benent of their bargain or renders this Agreement meaningless.

13. Notice:

Any notice, demand, request, document, consent, approval, or communication either party desires or is required to give to the other party or any other person shall be in writing and either served personally or sent by prepaid, flrst-class mail, in the case of the DISTRICT, to the Purchasing Director, Chino Valley Unified School District , 5130 Riverside Drive, Chino, CA 91710 and in the case of the CONSULTANT to the person(s) at the address designated on the execution page of this Agreement. Either party may change its address by notifying the other party of the change of address in writing. Notice shall be deemed communicated by the time personally delivered or in seventy-two (72) hours from the time of mailing if mailed as provided in this Section.
[SIGNATURES ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE]
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In WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement in Chino, California on the day and year as follows:

Chino Valley Unified School District
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Kathy Casino Purchasing Director
Date: 32M /0/ 90’75
Attest:

By:

Natalie Gonzaga, City Clerk
Date:

Approved as to Form:

ALESHIRE & WYNDER, LLP
By:

Fred Galante, City Attorney
Date:

City of Chino ( HOPE Program)
13220 Central Avenue
Chino, CA91710
Ph: 909-334-3487
Email: [email protected]
Authorized Signature
Silvia Avalos, Director of Community
Services, Parks & Recreation
Print Name/ Title
Date
Authorized Signature
Linda Reich, City Manager
Print Name / Title
Board Approved: 6/5/2025
Date
NOTICE
Purchase orders are required for all purchases/services. CVUSD desires to pay all invoices promptly, however, services cannot be rendered, and invoices cannot be paid until vendor signs and returns this contract. Failure to sign and retum this contract before providing services may result in non—payment for said services.

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Scope of Work for City of Chino
Scope of Work is subject to change as conditions and budget require. Changes made will be submitted for approvai.

The City of Chino will: i
Projected Numbers:

HOPE Centers will serve approximately 1,500 students/families 1. throughout the District’s boundaries.

2. CARE Closet will serve approximately 1,000 students/families.

Additional notes:

Unspent Case Management—funds can be used toward Services & Supplies.

Unspent Sen/ices & Supplies funds can be moved to Case Management—line item.

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